Chapter Fifteen
Carly had been watching the news conference, stunned first by the idea that it had been Lorenzo who saved the young mother like he had once saved her, then by what was being said. Not because she truly gave a damn about some illegitimate kid, but because she had a sinking feeling about who was behind it.
She had seen the catalogs that Sam had had during her visit to the penthouse, had dismissed it as the lazy woman not getting rid of them after her brat had died, now Carly was thinking and thinking hard.
"Be right back." she said and hurried out the door, her anger at what the bitch was trying driving her towards the Harbors at top speed. Pulling into the garage, her brakes screeched as she hadn't even come to a stop before she was jumping out of her expensive sedan. The guard who saw her noticed she hadn't even taken out the key.
Arriving on the penthouse floor, Carly took out the keys and unlocked the door, slamming it open as she entered Jason's place. "Where are you?"
"Carly?"Sam came out of the kitchen with a bottle in her hand. "What are you doing here. I thought you got the message the other day. We don't want you just walking in anymore, we would prefer if you never came in. Now be quiet, don't wake Delilah."
Carly snarled when Sam but down the bottle of beer and looked at her. "You crazy fucking bitch, do you realize what you have done by kidnapping that brat? Do you realize that the police will come after Jason, that he will go to jail for what you did?" she shrieked.
"Go away, Carly. Stop lying." she said. "Jason is happy, he is on his way here to be with us, with his family."
"Really, Jason is coming here?" she mocked. Looking around she asked "So, where is he? Not here from what it looks."
"He is on his way. He will be here soon." she said with uncertainty as more time passed.
Carly walked over to the phone, picked it up and said "Well according to this you called him an hour ago. Jason isn't coming Sam. My guess, he will go straight to the police."
"Carly, you are lying. You know that Jason would never go to the police."she said equally smug. "He will come, realize we need to take care of our little girl, we will flee this town together as a family."
Carly walked over to the remote, hit on the button, then waved her hand at the television as they reran Mac Scorpio's interview. "See, it was his calling the kidnapper a con artist. I couldn't help thinking, who does that remind me of, then the part about wanting to keep hold of a man. Well you don't ACTUALLY HAVE Jason, but you want him. Badly."
"I did nothing wrong." Sam said. "That girl, she can't take care of a kid. I know she is homeless, I heard them talking about her at the diner. Delilah will have a good home, I deserve to be a mother. I will be a good one."
Carly curled her lips as she watched Sam go over and pick the sleeping baby up. The short woman had changed out the scrubs that the police said she had stolen and was now wearing a skirt so short it would get her arrested on the wrong street and a top so tight things were about to pop out as well as a pair of heels.
"Sam, from the way you are dressed; you clearly expect Jason to be so grateful he will throw you down and fuck you, well it ain't going to happen. You aren't his type, Sam. Courtney is his type, I am his type. He prefers tall blonds, not short brunettes."
"Really, see I have been doing my research, I know about Robin Scorpio, I know about Brenda. You were the one who told me about her, after all. He rescued, her played her hero. There had to be a reason." she said with a smirk.
"See, I know that you didn't win over Robin, that she screwed herself by outing you. I won't make that mistake, see I know that Jason loves kids, and this, this is my ticket." She said pointing to the baby.
"You don't stand a chance, Sam." she said with loud laughter. "You know nothing, truly know nothing at all. Robin trapped Jason with obligations, that is all."
Mac and Jason had come up the stairs with two police officers and had heard everything from the moment someone had turned on the television. Thinking on what Lainey Winters had advised, Jason was hoping that for just once, Carly wouldn't do anything to screw this up.
Entering, Jason was about to announce his presence when Sam moved closer to the pool table. "What is going on here? Carly why are you here?"
"Jasin, you have to tell her to go, she is ruining my surprise. She has to leave, I want her to go." whined Sam as her frantic movements woke up the baby.
While Sam was moving towards the window, Carly was moving toward Jason, imperiling his ability to get closer to the baby so she could be rescued. "Tell her, Jason tell her she is wrong. Tell her you want nothing to do with that kid, that she has endangered you."
"Carly go home." he ordered, causing her to step back for just a second, then she laughed his order away. "I told you to leave. That you aren't wanted here."
"I told you, I told you you were being replaced." taunted Sam, as she moved back towards the sofa a bit, Jason was moving towards her, when Carly started laughing hysterically when she saw with relief that Jason's eyes were only on the kid.
"Yeah, right. Don't you get it, Sam, he isn't here for you, he only here because of that kid. Once again, you lose. You are nothing but a loser, a con woman who stole a baby trying to get a hold of a man who doesn't want you."
Jason was about four feet away when Sam backed up again, this time all the way onto the other side of the pool table. When her back was against the French doors, Carly saw Jason moving towards the other woman and just couldn't resist pointing out the truth.
"Yeah, look into his eyes, Sam. As a con, you can see the truth. LOOK, JUST LOOK." she said with laughter in her voice. "Sonny didn't want you, nor that brat you tried to have, now Jason doesn't want you. He is here to save that kid from you, nothing more. You, you are still the same loser you were with my husband."
Jason couldn't deal with both of them, so he turned on Carly, hoping it would make Sam stop for just a moment. "Your husband? Carly you are not married to Sonny anymore. He made it very clear, you are nothing more than the mother of his kids. They are your only tie to him, and frankly Michael used to be the only tie for me."
"JAAASSON. How can you talk about Michael like that, you made a promise, a promise to always..." Sam watched, saw Jason moving towards the blond and instead of thinking Jason was coming to her for her, realized that Carly was telling the truth.
Well she would just see about that. Then hearing sounds in the hallway, got that he had brought people with him. Looking around desperate for escape, she almost breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was the cops.
Now that was a threat she could deal with as she pushed down the handle and out to the balcony. "SAM! DON'T!"
Jason looked up from dealing with Carly to see why Mac was calling out and looked on in horror as Sam held the baby over the balcony. "Sam, stop, don't, please think about what you are doing."
Carly said "Told you—hmmph!" Mac had put his hand over her mouth and said shut up as Jason moved back towards the baby, angry with himself for forgetting why he had come here. Mac was hoping that his officer hanging off the roof was close enough to help but was worried he might not be in place yet as things kept coming rather quickly as Sam made threats.
"I will do it, I will drop the baby." she was announcing hysterically as Jason advanced. "Tell them, Jaysin, tell them I will do it."
Lainey entered the penthouse, saw what was going on and turning towards Mac said "She needs to be confronted. By you or by Jason. She is a complete narcissist, everything is in relation to how she sees herself as a sexual being. As the woman all men want and all women want to be. Sam doesn't listen to women, she thinks she is better than every other woman. "
When Carly scoffed, Lainey looked at her then said "She isn't the only one. You are the same way, the only difference is you are more than likely mentally unbalanced, she is perfectly sane."
"Not now, Dr. Winters." said Mac who found it hard to hide his smile at what she had said in spite of how serious things were. Jason had gotten to the doorway of the balcony, while inside the tech officer was maneuvering a bit so that the SWAT team could see and hear what was going on through the diminutive camera on his shoulder.
Outside, Stan who had been already watching, taping had an idea. While it wouldn't have much affect on Sam, who knows maybe just maybe if Carly's part in this were known, something would be done about her.
So with that in mind, he made a few moves on his laptop and soon what was going on was being broadcast on the Internet and over all four local news channels with the footage going to CNN and FOX news as well.
CNN only went live, FOX showed all the footage from the moment the police had arrived outside of Jason Morgan's penthouse as Carly used the press conference against Sam. Soon, the whole world heard Carly egging the situation on, endangering this child with her obvious need to be right regarding Jason.
"I changed my mind, I was having a moment of weakness. But can't you see, I changed, I changed because of you." she said pleading with Jason, thinking she was getting through to him. "We, we were going to be a family. I was going to bring home Delilah, we were going to be a family."
"Sam, I told you from the beginning, that wouldn't happen. That Sonny would want to be a father to his little girl. We weren't going to be living this life you were talking about. I was planning on moving out, letting you keep this place and move on with my life once you no longer needed me."
Mac tensed, along with Jason, both worried she would go over the edge at hearing the truth but instead she had smiled an almost terrifying in its brightness as she said "But Jason, I will always need you. I picked you, out of all the men who have wanted me over the years, I have picked you for myself. No lies, no games, I was honest about how I felt."
"Sam, what you don't seem to get is that you have one piece of this puzzle wrong. I don't want you." he said as simply as possible.
"Yes you do, all men do." she said. Then she saw his eyes and her anger rose. "Wait, is that bitch right, do you want someone like her?"
"Carly? No, I don't want Carly, nor Courtney." he said looking at Sam, hoping someone had the blond in control as he got he had to be completely honest with Sam. "Sam, that has been Carly's dream for years, I ignored it, hoped she would realize it wasn't going to happen."
Mac had grabbed the blond, when the words started coming out of Jason's mouth, worried what she would do but the way she was actually calm made him more scared of her than Sam.
"She hasn't gotten it yet, though. I am there, keeping her around because of Michael. At least that was what I thought, but I recently realized something. Carly does know, she does get that I am only there for Michael, its why she is so needy, so clingy. So I cut her out of my life."
Sam flashed a triumphant grin towards the blond but saw she wasn't upset and realized she might actually have to drop the kid, if she wanted that insanity defense. She had read about a case like this, the woman had dropped the kid and that blond on television had said, that only an insane woman would go that far.
Jason got that she wasn't buying it, that Carly for some reason was why Sam wasn't giving over the child, then looking at Sam, had an idea and hoped Elizabeth didn't kill him for what he was about to say so publicly.
"Do you know why Carly doesn't see this as true?" he asked. Jason saw Sam frown and said "You, you look a bit like Robin. Long dark hair, brown eyes."
"I heard about her, she betrayed you." said Sam. "Told the truth about Michael."
"She didn't betray me." Jason said. "She did tell the truth, which looking back was the right thing to do, that wasn't why I was so angry with her, in spite of what every one things. I get angry because she didn't do it for Michael's sake, no matter how much she claimed to. Robin did it to get Carly out of our hair."
"I don't understand." Sam said, her arms starting to ache from the weight of the newborn and pulling her in just a bit when she saw Carly's eyes were on Jason and that she was tense.
"You do look a bit like Robin, so when I took you in, Carly wasn't worried. She knew what at the time, not even I did. That I didn't love Robin the right way. That I loved her but wasn't IN love with her." Now both Sam and Carly were confused and that gave Sam hope when she saw Carly was too.
"Carly knows you weren't a threat to my taking care of her son, it was why you were moved in in the first place. What you never knew, Sam was that Carly was relieved you were here." he said.
"No I didn't want that whore here." snarled Carly while Mac whispered one more word and he would have her muzzled.
Sam was now completely focused on Jason, Carly's comment relieving her of her fears regarding the blond. "Why would she be relieved?"
"Because Carly knows that there is someone, someone I care about. Someone I have loved. She is her worst fear, what truly keeps Carly up in the middle of the night because she knows all it would take was one word from her, that I would leave everything behind and go wherever she wanted if I was given just one word."
"What word is that?" asked Sam fascinated in spite of herself when she saw Carly was now turning green. Some part of her was almost okay with losing her chance with Jason, at least if it was to someone Carly despised. Now almost calm, as she planned her next move, Jason's reason shocked her.
"Well actually there are more than one word. But yes, or I want to be with you, or I love you." he said his voice hoarse for a moment. Then without seeming to realize it, he kept talking.
"She finally said those words to me. Sam, this idea, this dream you have, it wouldn't have happened because I am already a father, am already married. See in September, she did say all those things to me. And within minutes, I had her in front of Father Coates and we are married."
Back on the balcony as she moved towards Jason who was backing up, he said to Sam. "Sam, that baby is an innocent, just like your little girl. That isn't Delilah, Sam. Her name is Hope. Her mom is back at the hospital, crying, worrying about her little girl. Now, you wouldn't want her to do that, now would you?"
"Why not? Why should someone like that, someone so incapable of taking care of a kid get to have one when I can't. When I am denied my desire to be a mother." she cried out.
"Sam, she isn't incapable, yes, she is young but she has help. Her grandmother arrived tonight to take her in and help with the baby. The baby's father, who she had had a fight with showed up. He had lost his job, which is why he did what he did, to push her to go home but he got a new job, is working. He apologized, begged forgiveness." Thank god for Mac, otherwise Jason wouldn't have been aware of that.
"So, that doesn't matter. This is my baby now." she said possessively .
"Sam, don't you remember? You didn't want your baby at first. You were going to have an abortion until I gave you the money from Sonny not to. You didn't want to be a parent." he pointed out.
There was shocked silence as Carly moaned no then passed out. Sam watched repulsed yet unable to turn away, then looked at Jason. His words had come at a distance, then she felt herself go limp as she got her schemes were never going to work, that she had lost before she had been really able to even play the game.
Jason saw how distant Sam's eyes were and quickly moved in and pulled the little girl to safety. Sam just sat down on one of the chairs out on the balcony, her mind astounded at what she was hearing.
Her mind was whirling, thinking how did she miss this, how did she not know her scheme wouldn't work. Was it her breasts, were they too small, had her girls started to sag, no, maybe it was her ass, had being pregnant caused it to widen too much.
"Get Elizabeth in here." said Mac when the baby had been handed over. Seeing Carly was unconscious, he gave a slight laugh which Elizabeth who had heard everything wanted to join him but instead she took the baby and with a glance towards her husband hurried off with.
Sam was being helped up by a police officer and she walked docile with him to the elevator already planning on how to get out of this, where to go next as they read her her rights. Seeing Elizabeth Webber there with the baby and Lainey and two officers between her and them, she moved her head a bit.
"You know Jason, pretty well, don't you?" she asked her tone flat as she tried to figure out what had gone wrong, needing answers before she left town to prevent her next move from going bad.. "You're best friends with his sister, right?"
Nodding, Elizabeth was checking over the baby while the elevator came to a stop and they disembarked from the car. "Was he telling the truth? Would Jason marry someone else, chose someone other than me?"
Nodding again, stunned at the events of the evening, Elizabeth had no words.
"Who, because I have to see this woman, have to know what kind of woman could possibly beat me, look at me, I am perfect." Sam was truly puzzled, truly astonished at being denied the man she had wanted, no man before had turned down a piece of her, who was this woman, this paragon of beauty, this woman who had to be a master of sex, because why else would Jason not give in to her.
As they crossed the lobby, the television screen was showing Jason's apartment and all could hear Mac and Jason speaking. "Jason, I have nothing to arrest Carly on."
"I know Mac. But give it a few days, when she wakes up and makes the mistake of trying to go after Elizabeth, she will give you plenty of reasons to arrest her. I won't use my family as bait, but we both know, Carly isn't going to just let this go."
Sam was confused as she asked the uniformed officer. "Why would Carly go after you, Elizabeth?"
The beautiful nurse turned the baby over to the medics, then looked at Sam. "Carly hates me. She always has. Now it is going to be worse because well, Jason is the father of my son Cameron, we only found out recently and well we are married, and are expecting another child."
"Oh, so that is how you did it. I knew that there had to be a reason."she said calmly. It wasn't Sam, she wasn't less then perfect, it was Jason, he had fallen into the parent trap sprung by someone else. Looking at Elizabeth, comparing the two of them, she got it, she finally got it as she mentally dismissed the other woman's charms.
"You trapped him with a kid. So I didn't really lose to you, you just put your plan in motion first."
With that, Sam was lead out of the lobby while Elizabeth laughed.
"Mrs. Morgan, aren't you upset with what she said?" asked the Morgan guard with her.
Turning to the guard there, she said "No, because to someone like Sam, it is the only thing that makes sense. She judges everyone else by how she lives her life. All that matters is I know the truth, that Jason knows the truth. Anyone else can think what they want."
TBC