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Chapter 3

A week later and Elizabeth was still walking around with Jason's card in her pocket. It was time to make a decision. She would either accept his help or take a different course of action. By that she meant leave Port Charles. They had enough money to move on as long as she got another job first. They could stay in a cheap motel until she found them a place to live. Remaining in the city after turning down Jason wasn't an option. If she stayed and then something happened he would take the choice of his helping them from her.

"Elizabeth." Epiphany walked up to the hub. "You have too many hours so I have to send you home." The head nurse thought she was doing the young mother a favor. The girl could take a yearlong cruise with the bags under her eyes.

"Okay." She wasn't going to argue. As tired as she was it was a wonder she hadn't hurt a patient.

"You can leave Cameron here for a few hours and get some rest." Epiphany offered.

Elizabeth chewed her lower lip. She hadn't ever left Cameron here while she was out of the building. If she was too far away and something happened she'd never forgive herself. Looking up Liz saw Emily come down the hall with Max trailing her and suddenly Elizabeth made her decision, just like that she was going to go with her gut. "Thanks Epiphany. I think I will." Elizabeth walked up the hall to where the young doctor was reviewing a chart.

"Hey Liz." Emily said smiling.

"I need help." Elizabeth needed to get it out. "Do you know where your brother is?" She would start with Jason and if he thought it was safe she would tell Emily.

"Call Jason." Emily told Max. She reached out for her friend's hand and held it tight. "You are doing the right thing."

"I don't want you to think I'm using our friendship." Elizabeth told Emily. That was why she asked Emily where Jason was instead of calling him directly. She wanted Emily to know at least some of what was happening.

"I was the one who wouldn't leave you be." Emily reminded the nurse.

"Jason will be here in ten minutes." Max informed them.

"I'm going to get changed." Elizabeth wasn't sure what was coming next, but she didn't want to face it in scrubs. "Thank you Emily."

"You're welcome. I'll wait at the hub for Jason." Emily left it at that. Whatever was going on her brother would make it right.

Jason said ten minutes but when Elizabeth walked out the locker room seven minutes after going in he was already waiting. And ignoring Leyla who was trying hard to get his attention. Without a word Jason called them an elevator and they got on when it arrived. He took them outside to his car. She didn't get in right away instead she gave herself a moment to see if the internal voice that kept her from being stupid was going to speak up. Silence. So she slid into the passenger seat.

He surprised her by getting in on the driver's side, but not starting the car. "How can I help you?"

"We're staying here?" She asked him.

"This is an area you know and there is plenty of foot traffic." As a board member he got to park by the entrance. "Plus this keeps you near Cameron."

His planning impressed her. "Thank you."

"If you are not comfortable you won't tell me what's wrong." Jason sat back in his seat and waited.

"Is anyone watching us?" She felt itchy.

"I have two cars each with one of my guys in it down the lot on both sides of us." Jason told her before pointing them out. "I want to make sure you are safe when you are with me. Would you like some music?"

"No." Elizabeth turned to face him. "We are running from Cameron's father." It felt so odd to say that out loud. She'd never admitted that to anyone, not even the man who made her set of fake ids.

"Your husband?" He wanted a clear picture of what they were facing.

"No, I was never involved with Lucky." Elizabeth paused again. "Cameron isn't my biological son, he's my nephew."

Jason hadn't been expecting that. "Do you have him legally?" He hoped she hadn't kidnapped him, because that would mean federal involvement. But they could still work with that.

"Yes." Elizabeth told him. "I promise you I'm not lying. I'll give you all the information you need to confirm my story. I just ask that you are careful in your search. We almost got caught a couple of time. The last time it was really bad, I'm not sure Cameron can go through that again he's suffered enough."

Jason believed her. "Start at the beginning and tell me everything."

"My sister Sarah is, was, Cameron's mother. She was the wild one. The partier and rule breaker. Drove my parents crazy. I was the boring quiet one. She used to tell me all the time to loosen up." Elizabeth blinked to keep from crying. "We were close despite our differences. She started doing drugs and running with a wild crowd and no matter what we said she wouldn't listen. Then one day it stopped, she met a man and she got clean. We all laughed because he was a police officer. Rebellious Sarah was dating a cop. My mom said that he seemed nice when she met him, but he wasn't."

Elizabeth paused and wished she had a bottle of water. "Sarah started changing. Becoming quiet and withdrawn. I would see her every week and then suddenly months would go by without a word. I was worried so I called her up and asked if everything was okay. She said it was fine and when I pushed she started screaming at me. Saying I was jealous because she had a guy and I didn't. That men wanted her and not me. It made no sense and instead of walking away I drove to their house, but she wouldn't let me in." Elizabeth felt odd airing her family's dirty laundry, yet at the same time she was feeling lighter with each word she spoke.

"Four months went by with me calling and her not answering, then one night she showed up at my house. Bruised and crying. He was hitting her." Elizabeth couldn't fight the tears anymore. Jason pressed some tissues into her hand but didn't speak. "He was beating my sister. I let her in and told her she could stay. When she took off her coat I saw the bump. Five months pregnant and he was hitting her. She wouldn't go to the hospital. She said Lucky had connections everywhere."

"How long before he showed up?" Jason asked her.

"Three days. I called the cops and they made him take a walk." Elizabeth had been disgusted.

"Protecting one of their own." Jason wasn't surprised.

"Yeah, every single time he showed up and I called the cops the same police officer responded. I had to dig a bit but I found out it was Lucky's partner. He wasn't logging the complaints. Finally I went to a supervisor and tried to file a complaint. Which resulted in Lucky being told to stay away from us, but no official reprimand was given." She paused again. "He left us alone for a while after that. Sarah went into labor and I took her to the hospital where I worked because I knew she'd be safe there. She had Cameron and on the advice of a lawyer she left Lucky's name off the birth certificate. Six months later she was dead in a car accident. Her brakes failed, which was odd because her car had just been inspected. Her death was ruled an accident, but I don't think it was."

"He came to get Cameron?" Jason asked.

"He tried." Elizabeth told the mob boss. "Sarah's will named me the guardian so Lucky had to go to court. I fought him every step of the way. It slowed things down, but didn't stop him. He got a DNA sample and tried to get sole custody. He failed, but because none of our calls were logged the judge gave Lucky visitation. Cameron didn't know Lucky and hated those visits, he had to be pulled from the house. I couldn't leave the state because of an injunction, and they had to threaten me with jail before I let Cameron go with Lucky that first time. I should have left then. Before that first visit I should have left." She blamed herself for what happened next. "I was worried about being charged with kidnapping so I stayed and let Cameron get hurt."

"Elizabeth." Jason reached out and touched her hand. "I need you to back up. What happened to Cameron?" He would deal with the guilt later.

"He started changing almost immediately. The bubbly happy little boy I was raising started becoming quiet and withdrawn. Just like Sarah had. The psychologist who saw him said it was the adjustment of having a father. That he would get better but he didn't. There was never a mark on him and I couldn't prove anything but I knew Lucky was doing something. It wasn't sexual abuse I had Cameron checked, and it wasn't physical, so it had to be emotional. I pushed for supervised visits and got shot down."

"Did he come after you?" Jason figured that was next. With Elizabeth gone Lucky would get custody of his son.

"Him no, but one night I was coming home from work and I got beat up really badly. The police said it was a mugging gone wrong, even a possible attempted rape, but it wasn't. I was in the hospital and Lucky took Cameron. Since I couldn't care for Cam because I was hurt, the courts backed Lucky's petition for temporary custody. When I got out I went to his house and he was gone. They were both gone." Elizabeth wiped away more tears. "Three weeks with no idea of where they were. I barely slept or ate. They got a lead when a video at a gas station in Utah showed Lucky filling up his tank. He wasn't supposed to take Cam out of state either. Because he did that made it kidnapping, so my lawyer called the feds when it became clear the police weren't going to. When they found them Cameron's arm was broken and he was dirty and bruised. He was so scared he wouldn't even talk." Elizabeth ran a hand across her face. "They arrested Lucky and he managed to escape. We got guards for six months and Cameron started doing better. Then one night Lucky showed up. We got into a physical altercation. I didn't even call the cops because they wouldn't do anything. I left Colorado that night. Got in my car went to five ATM's took out as much money as I could and we ran."

"He found you." It wasn't a question, she was wound to tight for that to not have happened.

"Twice in the span of a year. I finally was able to get some new papers." She didn't have to explain he would know what that meant. "Three months ago he found us in Oregon, and I stabbed him so that we could get away. The wound wouldn't have been fatal, but it slowed him down so that we could escape. I have to stop running. Cameron needs stability. I need someone I can count on. If something happens to me I don't know what will happen to Cameron. My parents died last year in another car accident so I can't even send him to them." Elizabeth was almost at her breaking point. It had just been going on for too long.

"When was the last time you slept for more than a few hours?" Jason wanted to know.

"Months." She told him. "I don't want to make trouble for you."

"You won't." Jason promised her. "What's his full name?" He wasn't going to call him Cameron's father. He didn't deserve that title.

"Lucas Lorenzo Spencer Jr." Elizabeth watched as Jason typed up a memo on his phone. "My real last name is Hardy, not Webber. So you can look up the court cases."

"Johnny is out of town tonight on business." He had a meeting in Miami. "Can Cameron stay with Emily?" Jason would respect her decision if she said no.

"We haven't spent the night apart since he came back from being kidnapped. I would need to check with his doctor." Elizabeth answered.

"Okay. Let's try something else." He wanted this to stay between as few people as possible for now. "I want to drive you home and have you pack an overnight bag for you and Cameron. I want you to stay in the penthouse tonight." Jason told her. "My guys can secure your place while you are away."

Elizabeth hesitated. "Cameron sometimes wets the bed. It doesn't happen much anymore, but I can't afford to replace your mattress." The mattress at home had a rubber sheet over it. He wore pull ups to bed but when they got wet he took them off. If he an accident after that it would destroy the bedding.

"Don't worry about that. The two of you can share the guest bedroom, the door has a lock on it." Jason promised her. "You need to get some sleep." He wondered if she would have told him all this if she wasn't sleep deprived. She was going to get sick if she didn't take better care of herself. "I would like for you to ask the doctor what I can do to make Cameron more comfortable around me." Jason planned on spending as much time with them as he could.

"It is weird but he is already more comfortable around you then most men." Elizabeth admitted. "I think it won't be hard to get him to trust you more, but you can't push."

"I won't, he's been hurt enough." Jason thought back to the old adage of never trusting anyone children and animals didn't like. He also thought about Johnny's theory of the three of them being fated. Maybe they were feeling it too and that was why they were beginning to trust him.

"I need to go get him." Elizabeth said reaching for the car handle.

"Why don't you have a car? It would make it easier to get away if you needed to?" Jason wanted to know.

"They're expensive." Elizabeth answered. "I can't afford to buy another one. I had to leave the one I had in Oregon." She'd been in no shape to drive long distance after Lucky found them.

"I'll have a car for you by the time you come back down." Jason told her. "Something inconspicuous and that you could afford if you bought it. My guys will take care of any problems you have with it." He wanted her to have the vehicle in case she needed it. "Go get your son."

Elizabeth nodded and on shaky legs got out of the car. Jason stuck his hand out the window and up the street Milo got out of his SUV and followed Elizabeth into the hospital. He was far enough away to hopefully not spook Cameron but close enough to act if it became necessary. In his truck Jason started making calls.

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