A/N – Thanks for the comments! Chicki'62 I have no idea who you are thinking of but I seriously doubt you've guessed what I'm thinking lol. Are you thinking Carly? No. That is not who I'm thinking. * Guest – Patrick has custody. Do you really want Sam in town? Lol. Jason could still have Danny for the summer and holidays etc. and Chicago is not that far. * ilovedana – eventually but it's not like Robin has been around. I hate what they did to Robin on the show and I'm not even a Robin fan. * kikimoo – They've been broken up for a while haven't they? They were written so badly on the show to show her being kind of indifferent so I'll continue it until I fix it. * Guest – Sam knowing about the DNA switch is a total re-write. No one told her. Liz didn't and Jason was gone. Spinelli left town. Stupid writers. I hate when they do that. Well since I couldn't find that before I can't undo what I already wrote.

Ok so I realized I made a mistake in last chapter. I've never done this before but I'm replacing some text because I found transcripts of the Johnny/Jason confrontation re: Alcazar. I want to depict it right. Here is what I changed: Johnny O'Brien. Jesus. He was killed when it was discovered that he had been working for Alcazar. Jason had someone take care of it. This was going to be a messy situation if they brought him back but he couldn't tell Robin the truth.

Chapter 17 - Perspective

Liz's phone rang and Patrick grabbed it before she could get to it. They fought over it and Patrick won and said, "Gorgeous Elizabeth's phone, may I take your order? We're out of her world famous brownies, but I think we have some leftover chili."

"Do I need to put a hit out on you?" Jason asked.

Patrick grinned. "No need for violence….ouch!," he yelled as Elizabeth pinched him on the arm.

She grabbed the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey, sounds like you're busy."

"Patrick was just shutting up."

Jason smiled.

"Hold on, he's leaving now."

Patrick got up. "Fine, I know when I'm not wanted."

Liz shut the door behind her. "Where were we?"

"I miss you."

"I miss you too."

Milo had texted him that she was at the studio.

"Did you like your surprise?"

"I loved my surprise. Thank you for doing that. I didn't realize how much I missed this place. Cameron helped me dust."

She didn't know it yet, but Jason was going to be sending her an art care package the next day.

"Jason, Sam and I had a heart to heart and I admitted what I did to the DNA test."

Jason sighed. "I'm scared to ask how she took that."

"She was upset, but actually it wasn't as bad as I thought. I think she's more mad at you for forgiving me."

"It's not the same thing."

"I know, but it was still bad."

"Are you okay?"

"Yes. I needed to tell the whole truth." Liz took in a deep breath.

"Then we'll deal with it together. So, I have some news but you can't say a word."

"Okay."

"We found Georgie Jones and Johnny O'Brien frozen in the lab."

"Get the hell out. Oh my God. Mac and Maxie are going to freak. Is Robin okay?" Liz was shocked.

"She's excited."

"I'm not sure what I'm going to do about Johnny," Jason said uneasily.

"Why? What happened back then? I noticed he disappeared."

"He was working for Alcazar."

Liz was shocked. "Oh. What is else is wrong. You sound sad."

"I don't want to say."

"Jason, please. You can trust me."

There was a long pause. "I was hoping that we'd find Jake."

Liz was a silent for a long moment.

"Elizabeth?"

"Jason, you know that isn't possible. Jake's organs went to Carly's daughter."

"I know. I just….."

"You want another chance with him. I get it," she said before wiping away a tear.

"I didn't mean to make you sad."

"I just don't like how much you are hurting."

He cleared his throat. "I'll be fine because I know that we still have a chance."

"I wish I could hug you right now."

"Me too."

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Helena looked out the window replaying the Jake incident in her mind. It was genius to make Luke think he had killed a little boy. And it was also very convenient that another blonde hair little boy had been in an accident several nights before. The damage was consistent with Jake's and she had the bodies switched. She was surprised that he was a match for Joss, but it really didn't matter to her. Jake had extensive injuries and they did the best they could to get him healed, but he was still in a coma. So, they made a decision to use some of the cryonic drugs and hope that it would work and allow them to use the child in the future. Time will tell. If he doesn't make it, Elizabeth will be crushed so even better. Either way, they'd be too distracted to see her secret weapon coming.

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The next morning, Jason got up early and took a shower. Robin and Jake were still asleep. It was just messing with his head that he had basically been frozen. He was dead and brought back. It was like some crazy science fiction movie. He could barely fathom it. Life just seemed more precious now, and he needed to remind himself to appreciate it.

His phone rang and he quickly answered. "Victor?"

"Yes. I have some good and bad news."

"Go ahead."

"The bad news is that they escaped. I think their people knew where they were all along. With that said, the good news is that they are being followed. If there is a second lab, we'll find it."

"I don't think they'll come here. They wanted us to find this place."

"Just be careful and watch your back. If I find anything else, I'll let you know."

"Thanks."

He walked into the break room and turned on the coffee machine and started mapping out a game plan.

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Liz walked into Kevin's office.

"Have a seat."

She sat down and Kevin got himself situated.

"So, I want you to explain to me your relationship with Lucky."

Liz groaned. "You're just going for the jugular.

Kevin smiled. "Since it was your first major relationship, I thought it was a good place to start.

"I had such a crush on him in high school, but he wanted my sister. He stood me up for the Valentine's day dance for her and I wandered into the park and was brutally raped. He found me and stayed by my side. I was a wreck. Everyone thought we were wonderful together. He thinks he picked me up from the ashes like he did all the work." She rolled her eyes. "We got pretty serious and then Helena happened. She took him and I thought he was dead and then I met Jason."

"And he helped you through it."

Liz slightly smiled. "He was wonderful. I saved him one day and started to get pretty attached to him and vice versa. When Lucky came back, he wasn't the same person and I couldn't stay away from Jason. He asked me to go away with him, but I was so stuck on stupid I said no. Lucky was the only concept of love that I had. I did think that I loved him, but honestly, I also felt like I owed him. When you think your damaged goods, you don't really think men will be lining up to be with you."

"That doesn't make for a good relationship."

"I know. I'm not going to say that I never loved him because that would be a lie, but it did become very unhealthy. He slept with my sister and of course, I forgave him eventually. Jason came back and I was just drawn to him. I think it was because I was so tired of all the Lucky drama. Do you know that I drank poison, making everyone think I was dead to end that stupid feud? God I'm an idiot. Jason was so good to me. When every other word out of my mouth was Lucky, he still stood by me. I was just scared to take a chance with Jason. It was the unknown. It wasn't like we were completely honest about how we felt either. I think I also didn't want everyone to be mad at me."

"Can you see where that pattern has repeated itself in your life?"

"Yes. Some of my worst decision making was based on that line of thinking."

"Go on."

"When Jason and I were finally on the same page, I found out he lied to me about Sonny being dead and it crushed me. I lashed out and we broke up. I admit, I was pretty forceful about not wanting him and Courtney swooped right on in and the next thing I know, they are together. I was so upset that he rebounded so quickly. I turned to Ric. I thought he would put me first and he was romantic but he had been screwing around with Faith Roscoe to get back at his brother and because of his obsession, she ended up causing me to have a miscarriage. He did horrible things to Carly." She shook her head like she was willing that memory to go away. "Ric was obsessed. He was feeding me birth control pills and it caused me to have a horrible reaction and I was in a coma. I almost died. Before that, he even let Carly think they had sex when she didn't remember anything which is rape. I still chose to forgive him. He was holding Carly in a panic room. She was pregnant and he was going to give me her baby. We broke up and divorced and I slept with Zander and got pregnant and then I took Ric back after all of that and remarried him. During alI that time I threatened Jason with a gun defending that ass and said horrible things. Ric screwed up again and ended up with Alexis and treated her horribly when she had cancer. And guess what? Yup, I took the louse back recently. He did something to a good friend and I broke up with him and then forgave him and took him back for the umpteenth time. I mean, I don't understand why I would do that. It repulses me." She started to cry.

"Elizabeth, if you were Jason, can you understand how it makes him feel to know that you forgave Ric for all of that and allowed him around Cameron, but you can't understand why he'd go back to Sam?"

"Oh I know it doesn't make sense. I even dated AJ when he had paid someone to kidnap kids. But Sam did what she did and I can't let it go. Maybe it's because it was my own kid; God that is a horrible thing to admit."

"How did you rationalize it in your head?"

"I saw the good in Ric. I wanted so badly to be loved and for him to choose me. Maybe I thought I deserved him. I don't know. I hate that I forgave him so many times. Why I can't I ever walk away? I stayed with Lucky over and over when I wasn't in love with him. Instead of telling him the truth, I went along with it because I didn't want to hurt him or I thought it was the best for the kids. God, we had been through so much and I was hurting myself worse by living a lie. I repeated that behavior over and over. I think part of me is scared I'm doing the same thing with Jason." It dawned on her that she had ripped Jason for his loyalty to Sonny when she did the same thing with Lucky.

Kevin was glad she went there. "It seems like you wanted Ric to change for you and maybe some of the other men too. Did you do that with Jason?"

She nodded. "I don't think I realized it at first. I wanted him to leave behind the violence and see that he was a good man. Maybe if I loved him enough, he would see how good we could be and choose me and it would change his perspective."

"It seems like you weren't as forgiving with Jason though. Why is that?"

She shrugged. "I've never thought about it before. Maybe it's because he does have the power to hurt me. Because it hurt me so deeply when he moved on with someone else, but the others…."

"Elizabeth, sometimes because you see yourself as so damaged, you want to fix people who are actually more severely damaged than you. You put up with more than you should and forgive them because I don't think you forgive yourself for many things. You think that your love can help them push aside the darkness and you fight for them because you really wish someone would do the same for you. The only person who has truly made you feel better about yourself is Jason and you judge him to a higher standard than you do anyone else. You don't see him as brain damaged, but he is and it does affect the way he processes life. But you ignore that because I think you don't want him to see himself as different just like you don't think he sees you as damaged. I'm not saying that he's not responsible for his actions though."

She wiped a tear away.

"It's all about perspective. Do you think you see yourself as damaged?"

She nodded. "I do. I am the queen of self-loathing. I think if I could stop thinking of myself that way, then maybe I could truly embrace love and be happy."

"To do that, you're going to have to honest with yourself and Jason about your feelings. It's not about right or wrong, but you two have shoved down your anger towards each other and you're going to have to trust each other to express it so you can move on."

"I know but I'm scared."

I don't want to go any further until we have the next session with Jason. You both need to be on the same page and trust the process before we can continue with this."

"Okay. I'm in. I'll do whatever it takes because I can't go back to the way I was."

Kevin smiled. "I'm proud of you Elizabeth. You've been through a lot and the fact that you are willing to experience the pain to get to the other side just shows how strong you really are."

"Thank you for saying that."

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Jason looked through the window at Johnny and Georgie. It had been two days since Robin started the process. Slow was putting it mildly. He really missed Elizabeth. His phone vibrated and he smiled when he saw the screen.

"Hello?"

"Hey."

He closed his eyes savoring her voice. "I was just thinking about how much I missed you."

She slightly smiled. "I'm on a break and needed to hear your voice."

"Is everything okay?"

"Yeah. It's been busy at the hospital. I started a painting last night."

Jason smiled. "Awesome."

"I was so excited when I got all the art supplies. You're so good to me."

"It's because I love you."

"I love you too. Cameron is painting alongside me."

"Really? I didn't know he was into it."

Liz smiled at the memory. "He loves it. Of course he painted himself as batman and Spencer as Robin."

Jason chuckled. "Keep those. Maybe they'll be worth someone one day if he decides to be an artist like his mom."

"Right now, he wants to be a superhero. I'm not sure how many job openings are out there."

"I haven't really thought about what I want to do going forward."

"I think at first, you shouldn't do anything. You deserve some down time."

"Maybe. I miss going to the gym."

Liz chuckled. "I do love the results."

"Elizabeth Webber are you flirting with me?"

"If you need to ask that then I'm getting rusty."

"Just don't go practicing with anyone else."

Jason turned when he heard Robin yelling into her phone. "Hey listen, something is going on with Robin. Will you call me when you get home tonight?"

"Of course. See you later."

"See you later."

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Robin chuckled her phone onto the bed and sat down and started to cry.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked sitting next to her.

"Patrick is thinking about taking a job in Chicago. He wants to move there."

Jason sighed. "I'm sorry." He wondered if Sam knew and what that would mean.

"This whole thing is a mess. I've ruined my relationship with Emma."

"Emma will come around as long as you stay in her life."

"That's just it though. If he leaves, I can't do that. Maybe I should consider moving to Chicago too. Once we're done with this, I need to put her first again."

"I agree. She needs you in her life."

Robin leaned her head on Jason's arm. "What are you going to do about Danny?"

"I don't know. I just—I want to be a good dad you know. I didn't get that chance with Jake. It would be easier for me and Sam if we were apart by distance, but I'm not sure that would be good for Danny."

"You need to get joint custody."

"Well, Diane did add it to the divorce papers. Patrick and Sam should be flying to the Dominican Republic today. So, I will."

"Well then you could object to her moving."

Jason shut his eyes. "I could."

"But you'd feel guilty because of Patrick."

"He's been there for them."

"Maybe you and Patrick need to have a talk."

Jason stood up and handed Robin his phone. "Dial his number."

Robin did and Jason walked out the room and headed upstairs to the roof.