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Chapter 5

"Good morning." Liz smiled at her friend.

"Morning." Nadine said trying not to yawn. "Staying over was a good idea."

"It's just easier on the guys if they only have to make one stop." Liz said handing her friend a mug. The crew had everything in the kitchen set up when she arrived home. The rest of the penthouse still needed to be properly arranged.

"The building is really nice, I've never been in it before last night." Nadine said fixing herself a cup of tea.

"We'll be living here, or at least for now." Liz wasn't sure if Jason wanted a house. "So you can come visit as often as you like. I'll get you a pass to the gym that way we can work out together. Or you can work out on your own if I'm not around. There's a pool in the building too, plus a roof top deck." No one would care if Nadine used the facilities.

"That would be awesome. I had to cancel my gym membership when I got laid off." Nadine had put herself on a strict budget so that she didn't deplete her savings before she got a new job. Which would hopefully be soon.

"You'll get something. You are too good of a nurse to stay unemployed. Piph didn't want to let you go in the first place." Liz told her friend.

"Thanks, it's nice to hear that. Piph told me she was not happy to lose me." Nadine said shrugging. "She also said I'm near the top of the rehire list. I feel worse for the student nurses that were expecting to do their protocols at the hospital." The incoming class had been cut in half. "They had to scramble for new placements. I applied for a job at Port Charles Academy." Nadine shared.

"School nurse?" Liz asked her friend.

"Secretary. I'm not keen on sitting at home, and that's better than being unemployed. I need health insurance. So it looks like those computer classes I took in school may come in handy." Nadine said smiling. She was perky by nature, and wasn't going to let this situation get to her. It could be worse, she could be out on the streets. "So what is the plan for today?" It was time to focus on something else.

"You and I get the boys ready and head over to the plane. We wait for Jason and the rest of the guys to join us, then we will fly out." Liz explained. "I wanted to go to the hospital to help him get ready, but the guys don't want me in the building if it's not necessary." They were on edge because she had been taken from there. Liz still had no idea why the TMK had targeted her. While they were in Seattle she was expecting Jason to bring up the fact that she didn't have to work. That would make her easier to protect. While Liz loved her job, if she left then maybe Nadine could be rehired.

"Now would be a good time to explain exactly how things work with the guards." Nadine said finishing up her drink.

"Having the guys around is easier than you think." Liz said smiling. "Just go about your day like normal, the guys will do their best to stay out of your way. They will only step in and change something if it's dangerous, or if a problem arises. The main thing you will need to do is follow instructions without question if things get hairy. Johnny said that Jason has friends out that way so no one is expecting any issues." Liz didn't want to scare her friend.

"Do I need to run our schedule by them?" Nadine wanted to know.

"That would be helpful. The night before give Chris the heads up about what outing you have planned. That way they can figure out the best way to get to wherever you want to go." Liz guessed that she and Nadine would plan a few things for the boys to do on the flight over.

"Chris is in charge of security?" Nadine asked her friend.

"He's in charge of your security." Liz answered a bit cryptically. There were other guards going and she didn't want her friend to know that just yet. "He's assigned to you. Kyle is assigned to Cameron, and Lee is assigned to Jake. Having men around really comes in handy these days when it's time for Cam to go to the bathroom. He hates using the ladies room." Liz said laughing.

"Well duh. The girls' room is probably crawling with cooties." Nadine said laughing. She had seen Liz and Emily interact with the guards and would just emulate that behavior.

"I will be glad when Cameron outgrows this phase." Liz said shaking her head.

"That will be in time for Jake to learn about how icky girls are." Nadine said laughing at her friend. "Have you ever been to Seattle?"

"Nope." Liz said grinning. "I've heard it's a great city, so I'm looking forward to playing tourist some."

"I've never been either. I think it will be fun." Nadine said smiling. She liked to travel.

"Let's go get the boys dressed." Liz said washing both mugs and putting them into dishrack. It was early and neither of her sons would wake up for another two hours. "I'll take Cameron."

"Okay." Nadine said following her friend upstairs.

"He sent her a text?" Jason was already up and dressed. He had hoped that Elizabeth would still be here when he woke up, but he wasn't surprised she was gone. She would have gone home to the boys. Monica had been sitting in the sleep chair going over some paperwork. Which dashed his second hope of sneaking out of the hospital.

"Yeah." Johnny was sitting in the visitor's chair. "Just the one, but Spin has the phone hooked up to a computer in case more come in. Francis and I are trying to figure out who our masked nutcase is."

"He was in good shape, and strong so I'm guessing you we are looking for someone our age or younger." Jason had been replaying the fight over in his mind trying to pick out anything important. "He's right handed. Not overly skilled in fighting, which is why he didn't land many punches." Jason did indeed have some bruising, but it wasn't that bad. "Brown eyes, but you might not want to put too much stock in that because they could be contacts." Georgie's sister liked to change her eye color every week.

"That's still a good number of the male population. Hell that describes most of the guys who work for you." Johnny pointed out.

"I am aware of that." Jason told his friend. "Has Jesse checked in?" He was their source within the department.

"No. Forensics reports take a while to come in. I figure that Sam is going to be autopsied today at some point, but I'm not expecting much there." Her body had been retrieved late last night. They were basically waiting for this nutjob to make another move. "I'm going to send the guys out to do another canvas. Ask our informants in the city if they've seen anything unusual. We were wondering if this guy might be Stan."

"No, he's skin is olive complexed. So Stan is out, and he's dead." Jason pointed out.

"I was too." Johnny said using Francis's line.

"I knew you weren't dead. It can't hurt to ask around." Jason said looking out of the window. "I'll call as soon as I get the report from the doctor." At the moment he felt a bit useless.

"Would your feelings be hurt if I said don't rush back?" Johnny asked his friend. "Take some time and explore the area. Liz has never been to the Pacific Northwest before. There is lots to see."

"I have to bring her back eventually." Jason knew what the request was about.

"I know." Johnny told his boss. "Shoot for two weeks. I'd like to think that by then we'll have some sort of break. I'm counting on Spin coming through for us." Johnny figured Jason would want to come back the day after he saw the doctor.

"Wouldn't be the first time." Jason was sometimes amazed at all the ways his tech guy was useful.

"I assigned Max to your mother. Just to be on the safe side." Johnny wasn't taking any chances. "I can put one of the guys with your aunt, but I'm guessing they are going to request combat pay." Tracy was not someone many people got along with.

"She is going to London today, but thanks." Jason said laughing.

"Jason." Patrick came into the hospital room. He knew his patient wanted to leave the area early. The neurosurgeon might have made him wait, but Liz was leaving too. Patrick wanted his friend somewhere safer than the city right now. "You staying?" He asked Johnny.

"Unless you throw me out." Johnny replied.

"Nope." Patrick said holding up Jason's hand. "The swelling will go down in the next few days. Did you get a pain pill this morning?"

"No." Jason didn't feel that he needed one.

"Can you move your fingers?" Patrick wanted to know.

Jason opened his hand wide, and then curled his fingers into a loose fist. He only grunted a little.

"You should be screaming." Patrick was amazed at the level of pain his patient could tolerate. "Try not to make too many fists before Callie sees you. Don't lift anything heavy. Any pain tell Liz right away, I gave her two prescriptions for you last night. Take the antibiotics, even if you skip the pain medication."

"Does he need sponge baths?" Johnny asked to be cheeky.

"No." Patrick said smiling wide. "Which I'm sure is a relief to you. I know you don't want Liz doing that." He said trying not to laugh.

"Are we done?" Jason wanted to know. He liked Patrick, but wasn't in the mood for his jokes.

"We are." Patrick told his patient. "Thank you, for saving Liz. She's a good friend and I would have been devastated at her loss." He said getting serious.

Jason just nodded.

"Make an appointment to see me when you get back." Patrick said before walking out of the room.

"Do you think he has a thing for Elizabeth?" Jason asked Johnny.

"No, Patrick has a thing for Robin. Which he isn't happy about because he doesn't really like her that much." Johnny had seen the neurosurgeon watching Jason's ex-girlfriend. "That might get ugly because I think Matt has a thing for Robin too."

"Matt is interested in Maxie. His relationship with Robin is just professional. If he's flirting, which I doubt, it's just to annoy Patrick." Jason rarely got gossip before his friend.

"Where did you hear that?" Johnny wanted to know.

"Emily." Jason said grinning. "Bring the guys in and let's go over everything so I can go to the plane."

"I'm gonna ask Georgie about Matt and Maxie." Johnny said standing up. "If it's true I might have to warn the doctor to run." His girl's sister was a hurricane, on a good day.

"This is some plane." Nadine said looking around the main cabin. "I've never flown on a private jet before, and I think this is going to spoil me for economy class."

"I hear you." Liz said buckling Cameron into his safety seat. "I've never been on this plane before. I've been on the Quartermaine jet though with Emily, it does spoil you." She said smiling. "I think Jason just got this plane a few months ago."

The thought of just going out and buying a plane this big wasn't something Nadine could really wrap her brain around.

"I know." Liz could tell what her friend was thinking by the look on her face. "He doesn't like to fly commercial." Too many security risks.

"Jason just pulled up." Chris let the ladies know. He had been standing out by the main door with the guys.

"Once everyone else is on board we will take off right away." Liz warned Nadine. "So we should go ahead and buckle up."

She did and when she looked up it was in time to see Cody Paul walk into the cabin. Nadine looked at her friend, who was just grinning. The nurse had to resist the urge to fix her hair. She was glad that she had decided to put on some tinted moisturizer and lip balm.

"Liz. Ms. Crowell." Cody said smiling. When he got this assignment he had called Johnny to ask if it was possible for someone to keep an eye on the pretty nurse. He had been happy to hear that Nadine was coming with them. While yes this was a working trip, he was hoping that they would get some down time. If that happened he was going to ask her to explore the city with him. The two of them had been engaging in some subtle flirting and he was very much enjoying that.

"Hi. I hear that you are stuck with me for this trip." Liz said smiling. There was no way she was going to admit that she asked Francis if Cody could come with them.

"No one else wanted the assignment." Cody said laughing.

"Who is with Jason?" Liz tried to ignore that Nadine was a light shade of pink. Her friend was going to kill her.

"Marco." Cody said watching Nadine blush. Whenever the two of them talked she always turned a pretty shade of pink. She was on the shy side, which was in direct contrast to most of the women he encountered, but they had already had a few conversations after running into one another at Kelly's. If things hadn't gone bonkers over the last few months he liked to think he would have asked her out by now. He took a seat as everyone else filed into the cabin.

Jason took a seat next to Elizabeth and let her buckle him in. He could manage it, but she would yell at him. "Hey." You would think he hadn't seen her in years.

"How are you this morning?" Liz wanted to know.

"Good." Jason said smiling at her. He was looking forward to time away with his family. He was also hoping for good news from the doctor. "Better now." That had everything to do with being near her. "How are the boys?"

He looked over to where his sons were both sleeping. Elizabeth had been sending him pictures practically every day. Jason even called the house and talked with Cameron, because he didn't want the little boy to think he had walked away. That had already happened to the little guy once when Lucky and Elizabeth broke up. Jason had promised himself that once they were all able to be together he wasn't ever going to walk away from either one of his boys again.

"Great. I didn't tell them we are going away, so Cameron will probably bounce off the walls when he wakes up on the plane." Liz said laughing. "So you might want to get some coffee in you before that happens." At four he was pretty excitable. Jake was only one and wouldn't care much about leaving Port Charles.

"I can't wait." He was looking forward to time with both boys. He was ready to be a dad.

"We have been cleared to taxi." Marco said taking a seat.

Liz and Jason just looked at one another and smiled. While the reason for the trip wasn't a good thing, time away together was. They would have time together as a family. Hopefully when they got back the TMK situation would be resolved, but if it wasn't Liz knew that Jason would keep her safe. "Patrick sent me your file, so I know what restrictions are in place. I will not hesitate to have Marco correct you if you get out line." She said with a wicked grin.

"I'm going to behave. I don't want to spend our time away fighting." Jason promised her. He also didn't want her to worry he was making his injury worse.

"We'll see." Liz said as the plane started down the runway. "If you behave." She leaned in and whispered. "I will give you a reward." The twinkle in her eyes would let him know what kind of reward she had in mind.

"Prepare to be amazed. I'm going to be the best patient you've ever had." Jason said telling his body to behave. They still had a long flight ahead of them.

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