Switching Places
Chapter 96
Carly opened the door to let in Sonny. Looking around for Olivia and this son of theirs, she was shocked to realize they weren't with him. "Sonny, I was looking forward to meeting your son."
"I wanted to talk to you first." he said. He had been worried about how she would react, but Carly seemed to take the news well..
"I am happy for you." she told him.
"I haven't told anyone else. I thought you deserved to know first."
Carly realized that Sonny still saw her as the woman he had been married to so long ago. "Thank you, but really, you should have told Jason first."
"I have a meeting with him at the warehouse later, I will do it them. You look happy, Carly. You seem different." Sonny was a bit disconcerted to realize she didn't even seem a little bit upset at the news of his marriage to his old flame.
Dante was wandering around Port Charles when he saw the damsel in distress and drove up to the curb. "Can I give you a lift?"
"I would love to escape, but my jailors won't let that happen." said Sage pointing to her Uncle and Aunt who were standing at the window. "'Sides, I have the chicken pox. This is just being allowed so that my boyfriend can come over for a few minutes."
"Shame for a girl like you, I would risk the chicken pox." he said looking her over thoroughly. Sage was amused but not interested. "I know you from some place."
"Really interesting line." she said dryly.
"No, really." Thinking on it, he looked her over and said "Port Charles Hotel fire, you are good friends with my roommates obsession. The girl with the boys name."
Sage just smiled, she didn't recall this guy and knew enough about her uncles former business to know that he could be just fishing for information.
When his phone rang, she turned to see Dillon arriving. The young couple sat on the steps talking while Dante made plans to see if the younger girl could be separated from her obviously pathetic boyfriend.
Talking to his newly found father, he explained he had run into an acquaintance from school and would see him later before turning back to find that there was no girl left. "Where did the hot little number go?"
"Home, with her Uncle and Aunt. You might want get rid of that attitude, even if we weren't dating, I would give you some warning. You do not want to piss off her uncle, he is connected to Jason Morgan. Capish?" said Dillon before walking away.
As she lay in bed, Georgie couldn't help worrying about Alexis, her adopted mother had been rather quiet when she had left after their dinner. She had been happy with the news about Johnny, but sad at the idea of his growing up with Anthony as a father. Johnny and she had awkwardly talked for a few minutes, both agreeing to do even more talking, but only after he had dealt with burying Claudia.
Johnny could feel Georgie thinking as she lay next him. Pulling her into his arms, all he could really think about was that his sister had died of the chicken pox, the same thing the woman he loved and his sister had. His mind kept racing to what could have happened. Hearing Georgie's breathing slowing down, he kissed her gently and allowed himself to fall asleep.
Early the next morning, Georgie woke up to see Kitty sitting on the bed staring at Johnny and her. "Kitty what is it, sweetie?"
"Michael says that Johnny and you are supposed to get married since you sleep together. Can I be the flower girl? And can we have a baby too?"
Feeling Johnny's body trembling with laughter, Georgie sighed then pulled her closer. "We have a few years before we can do that, okay? I know that you and I have discussed this before, do we need to again?"
"Fine, but I had better not be too big to wear a flower girl outfit." she said pouting as she left. Turning to Johnny, she kissed him then suggested he get dressed. "You have to have a talk with her then... I think you have a plane to catch."
"No, to meet. For some reason, my father changed his mind and they are now burying Claudia here next to her mother." he told her. "I don't get it, my father has to have something planned. Morgan is sending two of his men with me, but still, I want you to be careful, okay?"
Seeing the concern, Georgie said "I will, I promise."
Lia woke up feeling much better, but wanting her morning meal and her daddy in that order. Crying out, like clockwork, Daddy and Mommy rushed in. Holding her hands out to her Daddy, she cooed as he carried her down the stairs.
Jason saw that Lia was trying to ask for something, but not really getting what it was she wanted after refusing her bottle as well as her oatmeal, he saw Elizabeth put a little bit of her eggs on a spoon and feed it to the little girl.
When she had eaten it all, and seemed to want more, Jason feed her a little of the oatmeal, then had to laugh when she pulled the spoon into her own hand and made a mess while attempting to do it herself. "I think someone needs another bath."
When they had bathed Lia, Jason handed her off, knowing that Elizabeth would want to dress their little girl for her first outing since the chicken pox. Yesterday's visit with Sonny at the office had been strained, but mainly because Jason's Quartermaine memories seemed to pop out even more while in his company.
He found himself realizing how selfish his former partner was when his entire focus was on the computer geek and his family. Then hearing Sonny saying Dante wanted to stay in Port Charles and learn the family business, had shocked Jason. He had wanted to point out that Sonny no longer had a business there and the last one he had had been a restaurant. Jason had been able to get Sonny to see that his former enemies would not take it well if his son came on board. That at least had done some good.
But talking to Dante had revealed a few truths to Jason. He had NOT wanted in, in fact he had been being pressed by Sonny who wasn't dealing well with retirement. The only think keeping him out of the business was that he was well aware if he tried to comeback he would be killed.
Thinking on Dante and what he had told him, Jason had an idea that he would work on right after seeing what his wife was up to. She had been in the shower a rather long time. Approaching their bath, he saw the steam rising and was amused to see his wife sitting on the bench just outside of the water.
"I was wondering what was taking you so long." she said as she reached for the zipper in his jeans. "You had to know that I would get Lia back to sleep while putting lotion on her, or are you not interested in sho..."
Jason just reached around her waist and pulled her into a kiss while shucking his jeans. Soon guiding her under the warm stream of water, he broke the kiss long enough to removed the soaking wet t-shirt. "Still think I'm not interested."
Elizabeth didn't even allow time for any foreplay before guiding Jason home. Hearing his grunt of surprise to find her wet, she said "I have been thinking of this every since I woke up this morning."
"I so love pregnancy hormones." he moaned as he slid in closer then moved back just as gently. As he slowly eased in and out, Elizabeth realized that she was going to have to take charge.
"Sit down." she said while pushing him back onto the bench then hitting the button to turn on the upper shower head. When she checked the water to make sure it was hitting where she wanted it to, she straddled Jason and slowly lowered herself onto him.
Resisting the urge to take control, Jason just held onto his wife and let her guide them to completion. Holding onto his control took a little more than he had planned when Elizabeth lifted herself off of him.
Smiling at the look in Jason's eyes, Elizabeth said "I think we need to finish this in bed."
Before she had to time to grab a towel, she found herself lifted onto their bed and Jason had slid home again, not giving her a change to protest before he took them both over the edge into completion.
When they were coming down, Jason asked "What was that all about?"
Elizabeth smiled then said "I forgot that Kelly told me to take it easy for a couple of weeks." Seeing his body tense, she said "Not because of danger for the baby, but my back."
"What?" he asked totally clueless.
"Well we know that this little one isn't so little, right?"
Something he wasn't very happy about but he was aware that she was a little larger than with Lia. Seeing him hesitating but nodding, she said "Kelly wants me to take it easy on my back."
"You shouldn't be working then." he said reaching for the phone to call his father.
"Relax, I am doing hub duty, the heaviest thing I am lifting is a clipboard. I promise, well at least from today on." she said. Leaning down she gently kissed Jason and said "I love you, Jason Morgan and our children too."
"I love you too, Elizabeth Imogene Morgan. As well as Lia and this little one inside of you." he said before lifting her and rolling off the bed. Seeing her glare he said "I have to deal with Sonny today, he is still up in arms about that computer kid. Carly is having fits about this Spinelli being around and you need to go and talk to her."
"I will try. You know, we can both call off and spend the day with Lia."
"But then Sonny would stick around another day and I want him to head back down to the Island." he replied. "Besides Carly and he made a deal Michael is going down the first week in February and I have to impress on him the need for guards that week and still deal with having Dante around."
Jason was watching Sonny's plane take off while making plans with Dante who was about as interested in the mob as he was in cooking school. Turning to the younger man, he said "Are you sure you are okay with my plan?"
"Yes, I can handle learning the coffee business. Jason, I think my mom being around will help Sonny deal with these ideas of returning." Jason could see that the man wanted to believe that, but he had his doubts. Sonny had sounded like a man bored and missing the power he had had.
Just to be on the safe side, Jason had sent Marco down to the Island using the casino as an excuse for him to keep an eye on his former boss. "I have to go and see Jasper Jacks, Johnny is dealing with burying his sister so if you want you can take a look around town or maybe see what you need to stay here."
"There is a girl I want to track down." he said as Jason was reminded of his father.
Johnny was standing on the side of the grave as they lowered his sister into the ground. Hearing his father laughing he looked up to see him in his orange jumpsuit with handcuffs on his arms and leg irons.
Grateful that he wasn't biologically related to the man, he said "You should show more respect to your daughter."
"She should have shown me more respect, just like you should have my boy." said Anthony looking at Johnny. He saw not the boy he had tried to kill but a man, a strong man and that worried him. "Who is she?"
"Who are you talking about?"
"The kid, I have contacts on the outside. Who is the kid?"
"No one you need to concern yourself about."
"Interesting, a young girlfriend, a young daughter. Started young did you my boy." he said with a jocular laugh.
"That is disgusting." said Johnny. Looking at his father, he said "You look old, prison not treating your right?"
"I am doing better than you would. You are weak my boy, weak. Women, they should know their place. You keep them in line, don't let them rule you. But you, you have too much of your mother in you."
"Mr. Zachara, your time is up." said Mac as he approached the gravesite. Turning to the prison guards he said "Take that man back to his home and return him to his cell."
Johnny kept his face frozen, waiting until Anthony had left. "Why are you here?"
"Georgie wanted to be, Alexis too. I convinced them to let me come. We had a plan in place if you had to go to Italy too." he said. "Come with me, we need to talk."
As they walked around the cemetery, Johnny asked about Alexis and the baby.
"She is fine, I know that Georgie told you about Kristina and her biological father, right?" he asked awkwardly.
"Jeff Webber." said Johnny.
"Well, I know that you have had some horrible father figures and frankly since you are dating my daughter, I would feel strange acting as one to you, but if you ever feel the need to talk..." Mac left it open.
"Thanks, I was aware that it would be a little strange coming to you with my romance problems so I have been talking to Francis Corelli. He seems to understand Georgie and I pretty well."
"One more thing... you sister called me yesterday. Why does she believe that Georgie and you are getting married." he asked and saw the man flush.
"Uh, sir. I hope we are, eventually. Right now, she wants to finish school and that includes college. Kitty is rushing us a bit." he said laughing. "I love your daughter, I have since the minute I met her."
"There are a few things a man doesn't like to hear. I heard the worst of them from Robin the day she told me she had Aids. But a man telling me that he wants to marry my little girl, the child I brought into this world is right up there." he admitted. "Different reasons, same drop in heart beats."
Patrick Drake was waiting at the hub when Elizabeth entered a little frazzled a little but later. "Where is your brother?"
"I have no idea, is there something I can help you with."
"No, I need his help with that thing for your husband."
"The sample of my blood. What did you find."
"That is the strange thing, nothing strange. I was a bit surprised to learn your blood is rare in that it has a faster healing rate than the rest of the population."
"That I knew. I inherited it from my dad's side of the family. Kristina should have that as well as my children."
"Other than that, I have no idea what is going on. I do have one question, did you know that Lassa fever rang rampant about thirty years ago?"
"No, why is that important?" she asked.
"Your grandfather, who should have healed the fastest ended up almost dying because he didn't realize he was sick due to his blood. Your father who was here, never caught the fever."
Calling out to Monica who was walking with Alan to the cafeteria, they soon had the whole scoop as Alan asked why it was important.
"That's just it, I only knew about it because someone accessed the hospital records about the illness."
Holly was waiting for her husband in his office wondering what they were doing on the hot tropical Island. She wanted to be in Rome not the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Hearing her husband, she ducked into his bathroom pretending to be washing her face as he talked to the man with the British accent.
"Anyhow, will that sample be of any help?" he asked waiting for payment.
"Yes, perfect. When I saw the way the fever spread, I knew I had read something about it. As soon as I learned that Jeff was the man who wrote the paper for the New England Journal of Medicine, I knew where to locate the files. Thank you, James. Can you handle the transfer this weekend. I want to test it as soon as possible."
"As soon as I deal with a small family problem, I will take care of it." said Jerry/James. He had found his golden egg had been cut off. Someone had located his money stash and he had to see where else his little brother might have money hidden.
"One more thing, there was an American in the village, avoid him. He was asking a lot of questions about this place. Some German doctor."
"On my way." said Jerry as he left.
Holly came out of the bathroom and asked "Is everything okay dear?"
"Yes, my man is going to take care of Mr. Craig tomorrow, and we will be on our way. They found a way to replicate the illness, now we just need to create a virus. My virologist says he will have it ready by January. Now do we want Paris, London or Rome."
"Rome of course." she said while worried. She was scared that this was more than a science experiment, what if her husband let that virus loose instead of going to the US Government like he had said he was going to do.
TBC