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Chapter 31

They didn't go far, and they didn't go back to Logan's apartment. In fact they didn't even leave Port Charles which was pretty ballsy, and smart. Georgie was guessing that the guys wouldn't expect her to be in a rundown motel on Cortland Street. With the crowd the place catered to, most people wouldn't even blink an eye at them.

Logan took her to a room on the first floor and ushered her inside. "Have a seat." He had paid cash for the room this morning. Three nights because he didn't think it was going to take long to get paid. Standing behind her he tied her to a straight backed chair with a rope around her torso and arms. Then he secured her legs because he didn't want to get kicked. "Now, what is O'Brien's number?" It was time to get things rolling.

"What's up?" Jason asked when he walked into Sonny's office. Francis, Cody, Johnny, and Milo were all present.

"We have a contractor in town and we are pretty sure he's here for Liz." Sonny had been the one to call his partner down.

"Lansing?" Jason guessed trying to hold his temper.

"More than likely." Francis answered his boss's question. "An orderly named Logan Hayes. Something about him felt off to Milo."

"Thank you." Jason told the guard. This just confirmed that he had been the right choice to watch out for Elizabeth. Milo nodded. "Do we have Hayes?"

"No." Johnny took that question. "He wasn't on the schedule to work today, he wasn't home, and he didn't come home while Milo and I were waiting. Hank and Ritchie are watching now."

"I have a file on Hayes. Like me he is ex-military." Cody said pushing the envelope over to Jason. "He didn't do any special forces training, but he did do extensive weapons training. He's smart, but has trouble following orders which was how he ended up with a dishonorable discharge."

"Violent?" Jason would read the entire file later.

"Not according to his file. Just didn't mix well with others." Cody knew a lot of guys that fit that description that were in the military. For some service straightened them out, for others it made matters worse. "He's done a few jobs for some families in the Midwest. No hits though. Mostly B&Es."

"Do you want me to head over to the house?" Milo asked Jason.

"Lee is there." Jason trusted the senior guard with his wife. Sonny had also sent two more guards just in case.

"For the time being I'm going to suggest that Milo get a partner." Johnny started outlining how to keep Liz safe. His phone buzzed and he pulled it out. Then frowned when he saw that the number was one he didn't recognize. Everyone got calls that were misdials, but for them it was rare. Their numbers were unlisted, and Stan did some magic to make them invisible in the system. Johnny hit the flashing envelope icon, because he had a text and all the blood drained from his face.

"Johnny?" Francis asked concerned. He leaned over and looked at the phone. "Shit. It's Georgie." He said pulling out his own phone. "I need a trace on the last number to call Johnny's phone."

Johnny's phone rang again, the same number flashed on the screen. He answered on speaker. "O'Brien." He made himself not start screaming threats about what would happen if his girl wasn't returned instantly. That wasn't going to help Georgie.

"You get my picture?" Logan wanted to know.

"I did. Let me talk to my girl." Johnny wasn't going to do anything else until that happened.

"Johnny." Georgie said trying not to give into the panic because yeah she was terrified.

"Are you hurt?" His voice shook a little on the question.

"No." Georgie started thinking on how to get a message to her boyfriend without Logan knowing what was going on. "I'm not hurt. Logan wants ten million dollars for my return. He will call later and tell you where the rendezvous point will be." She slowed down when saying the French word, something her kidnapper didn't notice. He probably thought the hitch in her speech was because she was scared.

"Have the money ready in forty-eight hours. I will call shortly after that deadline and tell you where to drop it off. Nothing bigger than a twenty. Since I'll still have your girl at that point you will want to leave any tracking devices at home. You don't want her paying for your stupidity." Logan said before ending the call. "Well done baby doll." He said laughing. "I'm gonna order a pizza, any requests for toppings?"

"No trace." Stan's voice came through Francis's phone.

"It's not necessary. Georgie is at the Nite Lite Motel." Johnny told his friends.

"How do you know that?" Milo asked surprised that his friend seemed to know where his girlfriend was.

"She slowed down on the word rendezvous." Cody had caught that too. "There was a motel on Courtland St. by that name. It was sold a couple of years before you got here, and became the Nite Lite Motel." He explained to Milo. "Georgie grew up here, so she would know that." She was cool under pressure and that was helping them help her.

"Stan, hack into the computer system and find out who recently checked in." Jason told his tech guy.

"I can do that, but if he paid cash he might not be in the system. That place is where a lot of the local pros take their customers." Stan said as he typed. "What I can do is see what rooms are blocked off for the next two nights." He said more to himself than to everyone else.

"We need to start putting together a plan for how to get to Georgie and bring her home." Sonny said looking around the table. "We also need to know how this happened."

"Phil sent me a text after he dropped Georgie off at her apartment." Johnny said joining the conversation again. The picture of her tied to a chair was seared into his brain. That fucker would regret touching her.
"Logan had to have been waiting for her. If he broke in then Georgie would have accessed her panic room." It had been installed while they were on the island. When she moved out it would be dismantled.

"How exactly did Phil miss him?" Sonny wanted to know. This was unacceptable. Their families were to be protected above all others.

"I'll take that." Francis knew that if Johnny was anywhere near Phil the odds were good he would take the guard out for screwing up so badly. In fact when all this was over they might have to transfer Phil to Puerto Rico.

"I'll start putting together the op to get Georgie. I'll send some guys over so that we have eyes on the building and to try to get confirmation they are there." Although Cody didn't doubt that Johnny was right. "Assuming they are, if Logan leaves we can grab him and go in to get Georgie." If not then they might be able to force him out.

"Come on Johnny." Jason said getting to his feet. "We will go to my house so that Elizabeth had keep an eye on you." He figured his girl might be able to keep Johnny calm. Only because O'Brien wouldn't yell at her for hovering.

"I'll monitor things from here." Sonny was going to pray that this ended without Georgie being hurt. "I'll also send out the order to lock the houses down."

"Can Diane come to your place?" Francis asked Jason. He would suggest Sonny's but he knew without being told they were going to try to keep Alexis in the dark about what was going on. Worrying about Georgie wouldn't help her blood pressure issues.

"Yeah, that's not a problem." Jason told his friend.

"I'll go get her." Milo wanted something to do. "I can stay at the house once I'm there in case you need to leave." He told Jason.

"Thanks. Tell Chris to bring Sabrina out to the house when her shift ends." Jason instructed, that would relax Milo.

"Will do." The young guard said leaving to carry out his instructions.

"Johnny." Jason said looking at his friend. "We are going to get her back."

"I know." Johnny refused to believe anything else. He knew that every guy in the organization was going to do everything they could to help. It was just how things were. "A lot can happen in forty-eight hours." All the ways that asshole could hurt Georgie were running through Johnny's mind.

"Come talk to Elizabeth. She can help you by telling you what Georgie will need from you when she comes home." Jason wouldn't normally ask his wife to talk about what Ewan did to her, but tonight it might help their friend.

"Okay." Johnny said walking from the room. He needed to hold it together so that he could support Georgie, but once they had Logan he was going to teach him that this had been a huge mistake.

"What happened?" Elizabeth asked as soon as Jason walked into the house with Johnny. Her friend was even paler than normal.

"Logan Hayes was sent here by Trevor Lansing for you." Jason started there.

"Me? Logan?" Liz repeated blinking in surprise. "Why does Johnny look so pale?" He was standing in her living room looking lost.

"Hayes kidnapped Georgie, we don't know why he switched targets." Although Jason suspected it was because he couldn't find a way to get to Elizabeth. "We are working to get her back. Diane and Sabrina are going to stay here tonight, maybe tomorrow night too."

"They are welcome to stay as long as necessary." Liz said looking at her husband. It scared her to know she had been working next to someone who wanted to possible harm her. It terrified her to know that that person now had Georgie. "Is he asking to swap me for Georgie?"

"No." Jason said shaking his head. "He is asking for money. I'm guessing he didn't get paid up front. With Trevor dead he won't get paid at all, so he's going for ransom."

Liz just nodded. "How can I help?"

"Could you talk to Johnny about what Georgie might need when she comes home?" Jason asked his wife. "I'll understand if you don't want to." This had the potential to stir up memories no matter what, that was something he already knew.

"I can do that." Liz said letting Jason pull her close for a hug.

"I love you." This could easily be him living this nightmare.

"I love you too." Liz said softly. "Johnny, come into the kitchen. I'll make us some tea and we can talk."

"Do you want me to tell you what I went through, and how I got better?" Liz asked when they were seated at the table. She wasn't going to force this on Johnny.

"Yeah." He was holding onto the fact that Liz had managed to move past this as hope that Georgie could too. "Don't whitewash it."

"I was coming out of the gym." Liz started there. "Ewan blindsided me. I didn't even see him come up beside me. He pushed a gun into my side and told me that if I screamed that he would kill me. I had already heard him say on more than one occasion that if he couldn't have me then no one could so I believed he would shoot me."

Jason covered his wife's hand to give her support.

"He made me drive to a cabin that he owned. One I had been too before, which turned out to be important. When we got there he said that he just wanted time to talk to me, to convince me that we belonged together. Then we could go back to the city, I could drop my restraining order, and he could go back to working in the hospital. We could just put this behind us and start over. I told him that I was willing to listen. I wanted him to stay calm and to put the gun down."

She turned over her hand and linked her fingers with Jason's.

"For three days he talked about how happy we had been and how perfect our lives were going to be. How we could get married and have a family. I didn't say anything. I just let him ramble. On the television I watched my Gram talk to reporters and hold up my picture so I knew people were looking for me. They were looking for Ewan too, it wasn't until I was back home that I learned he bought the cabin in a fake name which was why they didn't come looking right away."

She sipped her tea before continuing.

"The third night I was sleeping in my room, locked in, and Ewan was down the hall in his when I decided to make a break for it. I picked the lock, not a skill he knew I had and ran for the front door, but I didn't make it. He beat me up really badly screaming that I wasn't being fair to him, I wasn't giving him a chance. That I wasn't giving us a chance." She just shook her head.

"You don't have to keep going." Johnny didn't want her upset.

"Another two days passed." Liz would finish because this would ultimately help Johnny. "I was in the kitchen pushing breakfast around the table. He got up to do the dishes and I stabbed him with my spoon. I don't even remember moving. It turns out if you are angry enough you can do a lot of damage with a spoon handle. When he dropped to the floor, I grabbed the pot he made our oatmeal in and clocked him on the head. I got the car keys from his pocket and drove away from the cabin. It was hard to do because he had fractured my right arm, but I did it. I drove into the nearest town and walked into the first business I came to. I looked a mess so they called the cops." Liz leaned back in her chair.

"How did you move past that?" Johnny hoped to god that Georgie's ordeal wasn't anywhere near that bad.

"Lots of therapy. Mostly though I got past it because I had a lot of support. Gram, Steven and Sarah. Then you guys showed up. It was funny because you didn't even know you were helping. You guys would see me out running errands and you would walk me home which helped me to feel safe. You would sit with me at Kelly's so I wasn't alone and had to talk to someone which kept me from pulling into myself. Jason installed an alarm system in my apartment when I finally moved out of my Gram's house. That support made a huge difference. I also moved past it because I wanted my life back. He didn't get to take my happiness. Georgie is a fighter. She isn't going to let Logan take the life she has from her." Even if her friend wasn't hurt physically, which would hopefully be the case, there would be emotional damage done.

Johnny looked at his friend. "Did Ewan…" He didn't even want to say it out loud.

"No. Ewan didn't rape me. He didn't even try to kiss me. He wasn't looking for that kind of control. He wanted me to bow down to his wishes. Logan wants money, he won't get it if he hurts Georgie. He needs her uninjured to get his pay day." Liz tried explaining the big difference between what she went through and what her friend was going through. "You can't let your guilt derail things between you."

Johnny looked surprised that she picked up on that. "I feel like I let her down."

"Logan came here for me. This is about someone who is looking for a quick payday because killing me won't get him that. I'm going to guess that he looked at all the ladies before deciding to try his luck with Georgie, and I'm guessing he picked her because she lived in the least secure building. " Liz told her friend. "You pushing her away will hurt more than being held hostage. She is going to need you to stand between her and the rest of the world while she deals with this. Can you do that? Feeling safe will go a long way to helping her heal, and you will be able to give her that." Even if he couldn't Georgie could stay with them. But Liz had every faith that Johnny wasn't going anywhere.

"I'll give her whatever she needs when I get her back." Johnny was just praying she didn't walk away from him. "She's moving into the Towers when her lease is up." In thirty days.

"Good." Liz didn't say it out loud, but she was guessing that Georgie was going to end up living out at Johnny's farmhouse. Events like this made you want to hold onto the good things in your life tighter. "The first few nights she's home you are both welcome to stay here if you like."

"Thanks." Johnny said quietly. "Thank you for talking to me about what you went through. It helped." It also scared him but he got the message. Support would be key when they got Georgie back.

The doorbell rang. "That's probably Diane. I'll go let her in."

Both men stood up. Jason looked at his friend. "Cody is going to do everything he can to bring Logan in alive. He's all yours when we get him." Sonny would agree with what his partner just said.

Johnny nodded because he didn't have anything else to say. He was focused on sending positive thoughts to his girlfriend.

"Let me check on the ladies and then we'll go wait in my office." Jason said before heading to the front of the house.

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