Chapter 7

It had seemed like another lifetime that he had been staring into her tear filled eyes but in reality it had only been a few minutes.

"How long were we together?" Drew asked. He knew that him having relationships in the past was a probability but it still stunned him to actually meet someone he had been in a relationship with.

"Weeell," Carina dragged out as she took his face in her hands. "I guess you could say we were an on and off thing and we were only on when we worked cases together."

"Seems like things ran pretty hot and cold between us." Drew stated as he finally pulled away from her.

"Well I am known to be a wild card on missions." She admitted.

"Why are you here Carina? Drew asked getting impatient. He had a feeling impatience and annoyance were common feelings he had for Carina Miller. He didn't understand why he had kept sleeping with her though.

"I can see you are wondering why we continued this dance when you were clearly annoyed with me most of the time. We were both married to our careers and it was convenient. It's not like you were the only guy I had been sleeping with over that period of time. I am probably one of the few that actually enjoyed seduction missions on occasion."

She pulled a package out of a bag that she had with her that he didn't notice. "This is your next upload from Ellie. I volunteered to bring it because I wanted to see you."

"A lot has changed for me over the past six years." Drew told her. "Unlike you I presume, I have an actual wife and children that I will not do anything that will hurt them."

"Relax, Drew." Carina said. "As unbelievable as it may sound, things have changed for me as well."

"I haven't told anyone yet especially my partner because I think he is going to loose his mind but I am pregnant with his baby."

"Partner?" Drew asked genuinely surprised. He was fairly shocked at her news and didn't know why she would confide in him about this.

"John Casey." She replied with her own brand of shock.

"Mr. Grunts a Lot?" Drew asked astonished. "Didn't he find out he had a daughter before I was taken. She was almost your age."

"Yes, Alex." Carina said. "That's not the whole of it. Alex married Morgan and she is pregnant as well. Casey is going to have a heart attack. As you say Mr. Grunts a Lot is going to be a father and a grandfather. Not sure he is going to handle this very well. Especially not with Shaw on the loose."

"Why are you telling me all this?" Drew asked with exasperation. He was getting a familiar feeling of wanting to wring her neck. Most of the recovered memories Drew had of this woman were not very pleasant and he didn't get the feeling they had been best buds.

"I had to tell someone that isn't around him very much." Carina explained. "I can't tell Sarah, my best friend because one look at her and he will know something is up. They have worked together for so long that she can't keep a secret from him. It's almost as bad as her not being able to keep a secret from Chuckles any more."

Drew ignored the silly nickname she had for Chuck and looked at his watch. Sam should have been there for their lunch date already.

"As interesting as this conversation has been," Drew pulled out his phone to text Sam. "I have a lunch date with my wife."

"Alright," She sighed. "There are some more goodies in the bag from Chuck. He thought they might come in handy."

"Look Drew," Carina said apologetically. Then she looked at him almost seductively. "I just wanted to see for myself that you were alright and to apologize for all the times I drove you crazy. Even though I believe I made up those occasions to you afterward."

Not even looking up from typing out a text to Sam, Drew said, "Good-bye Carina."

He heard her sigh again as she left his office.

After texting Sam, Drew picked up the duffle bag and put it on his desk. He pulled the case. It contained a special weapon with some very special ammunition. Chuck also left him a suggestion on what to do with it.

Drew had gone ahead and ordered some lunch to be delivered from the restaurant. It was delivered and Sam had still not arrived. She never answered his many texts. He decided to take the chance and tried to call her but got no answer.

He called Alice and she told him that the kids were with her. Sam was with Jason and Michael planning Jonah's funeral. Nelle and Michael had gotten in a fight before she had gone into labor. Michael had found proof that Nelle had set up Carly and they proceeded to fight about it on the way to the hospital. Before they got to the hospital Nelle had screamed and passed out. When Michael had gotten her to the hospital he had discovered she had started hemorrhaging.

They took the baby cesarean but the baby had been without oxygen for too long and had died before delivery.

Drew felt devastated. Even though they were Jason's memories, Drew still felt the sorrow of Sam loosing Lila. It was like a punch in the gut that they were not his memories and he couldn't share that grief with her. He didn't feel comfortable trying to be there for Sam and Michael. It made him feel too much like a fraud.

Instead of trying to reach Sam again he looked through the other box that Carina had given him. Ellie had sent another flash drive with instructions. It looked like she had several uploads available. In her instructions she said to only do one procedure every few days. But Drew looked at the files on the flash drive and decided he would do more than one. He needed to get this over with. He knew he should have called someone to be there with him like Ellie instructed but he just wanted Sam with him when he did these procedures and she was unavailable.

He sat in front of the computer screen and double clicked on the first file and like the other procedures he couldn't take his eyes off the computer screen as all the images of his memories became imbedded in his brain.

After it was finished he double clicked on the next file and more images of his memories came across the screen. After the second one was finished he decided he felt fine and he double clicked on the next one. He got to the sixth file and his head started feeling heavy but he went ahead and double clicked on the file. After the seventh procedure was done Drew slumped down in his office chair and slept.

The Next Morning

He woke slowly from his deep slumber. At first he didn't understand why he was asleep at his desk. He looked at the time and realized he had slept there all night. His head still felt heavy and he was disoriented. He decided to stay still for a while to get reoriented and tried to remember what he did the day before to cause him to feel this way.

He looked at his computer and looked at the files and remembered what he had done. After the third procedure he had stopped giving himself time between procedures before moving on to the next one. He concentrated on pulling the memories forward. Some of them were very unpleasant as they included 9/11 and the aftermath. He had lost many friends during that time.

His mind switched to the night before and what had prompted him to download more than one file last night. He felt guilty for not being there for Michael instead of hiding from seeing 'Jason' with Sam. He still felt insecure in Sam's feelings for him because he still had those parts of Jason's memories in his head. He was just ready for them to be gone. He had to face the fact that it might never make him feel any better to have them gone. He had to deal with them somehow and part of that was being honest with Sam about those feelings.

Meeting Carina had opened up some realizations about himself. He kept most of his feelings to himself. While he might have had other relationships similar to what he had with Carina he didn't believe he had anything resembling what he had with Sam. He wanted to be more open and honest with Sam unlike he had with Carina and possibly anyone else.

He pushed all the bad memories away, his own and Jason's and reached for his phone to call Michael. He wasn't surprised it went to voice mail. He left a message and told him to call if he needed him to do anything. He didn't know what else to say except he loved him and wanted to help him through this difficult time. Because he didn't know what else to do he made arrangement to make an anonymous donation to the hospital in Jonah's name.

He texted Sam to tell her they needed to meet and have a talk. He had so much he wanted to say to her. In the end he decided to give her some space for a few days because if all he could do for Michael was to not interfere in Sam being there for him, he was going to do that. It began to not sit well with him that he still hadn't at least gotten a text from Sam.

Second week in September

The radio silence from Sam was beginning to worry Drew. They had not gone this long without some type of communication since they began investigating this case. Drew made the decision he was going to go over to the penthouse after finding out from Alice that Sam had picked up the kids earlier that afternoon.

The memorial service for Jonah had been the day before and she had wanted to spend more time with the kids since she had been with 'Jason' and Michael more over the last week.

Before he left the office he reached inside his safe and pulled out the special gun and ammo just in case 'Jason' was there with Sam. It was time to follow up on a hunch Chuck had. After making a call to his contact at the hospital he headed out of his office.

Penthouse

Sam didn't know how it had happened that she found herself making out with 'Jason' on her couch. They had been playing legos with Danny then 'Jason' was leaving. Then the next thing she knew after hugging him and giving him a kiss on the check they were making out.

They had reached the coach and she wasn't sure how to put on the brakes. She was just upset enough with the new developments with Drew that she could see herself going through having sex with 'Jason' but on the other hand she didn't know if he was really 'Jason'. Either way this was not something she wanted to happen. She was about to pull away from him when the front door slammed open.

"Sam I am sorry to just barge in but," Drew started then stopped speaking when he saw Sam and 'Jason' making out on the coach.

Sam hurriedly pulled away from 'Jason'

"What is going on Sam?" Drew sounded devastated. Then he was angry. "I thought we were putting our family back together and I come in here and you are making out with him."

Sam decided to be angry right back, "If it isn't enough that I have to watch that witch DA come on to you all the time but almost walking in on you making out with some woman named Carina was a little too much."

"If you had answered any of my calls," Drew's anger was building even more. "I would have told you all about her and why we never worked."

'Jason' finally seemed to catch up with their conversation. "Sam, what does Drew mean you were supposed to be working on putting your family together? Have you two been playing everybody including me?"

Drew and Sam both looked at 'Jason' still sitting on the coach. They had forgotten he was even there.

Without hesitation, Drew pulled the gun out of his jacket pocket and shot Jason in the middle of his chest. He shot him again even though 'Jason' fell back on the coach.

"Drew, what did you do?" Sam asked as she jumped toward 'Jason' to check if he was ok.

"Relax, he will be fine!" Drew said angrily. "They are just twilight tranquilizers. When he wakes up he won't remember anything."

"We will talk about this later," Drew told her sternly. "Apparently we were not as ready to move forward as we both thought."

"I guess not," Sam agreed. "Now what?"

"Tonight," Drew said as he walked to 'Jason's' unconscious body. "I have to get him to the hospital. He has an appointment he should have had last year instead of just DNA testing."

"Tomorrow," Drew continued. "After Ellie compares these test result to Jason's health records on file at GH, we find out if their CT scans match in any way. It may be inconclusive but it may be faster than waiting another few weeks for DNA testing."

"What about us?" Sam said. She was so afraid she had ruined everything again by jumping to conclusions.

"I love you Sam," Drew said emphatically. "I don't want to be with anyone else. I really wish you had been your firebrand self and came into the office to confront us. I would have loved to see the expression on Carina's face. Nothing much scares her but I think you would have. By the way, Carina is pregnant with John Casey's baby but she is keeping it a secret from him right now. We will talk more tomorrow."

Sam just looked up at him dumbfounded as he dipped down and kissed her hard on the lips before bending down and throwing 'Jason' over his shoulder.

She didn't bother even trying to get any sleep that night.

The Next Day

Drew and Sam meet in the secret room for lunch. Neither knew what to say to the other except to discuss the details of the case. The WSB had techs and some of the doctors at GH on retainer that were available to do secret testing for them when needed. The tech had sent the CT scans over to Ellie as soon as they were ready.

Drew had Curtis meet him at 'Jason's' penthouse and snuck him in and put him on his couch. Drew had gotten the motorcycle keys out of his pocket and drove it to 'Jason's' parking spot.

From the surveillance tapes they knew he was confused about how he got home but he only remembered playing with Danny, talking a little with Sam and them hugging and Sam kissing him on the cheek. They heard all of this from a one sided conversation he was having with Carly. They knew from previous surveillance that 'Jason' and Carly were either together or talking on the phone every day.

They were waiting for Ellie to report in when Sam finally said, "I don't know what happened. I kissed him on the check and the next thing I knew we were making out. I was upset about what I had overheard between you and Carina, then your texts and calls indicated you had something serious to tell me and I was just afraid you were going to tell me that you had another family or something. I just couldn't face it. I just panicked again."

"Sam," Drew said as he reached across the table and held her hands in his. "After talking with Carina I am most assured I do not have another family out there. Anything serious would have had to be in my records somewhere. The relationship I had with Carina was casual and not exclusive. According to her we were both married to our careers and I just don't see myself being involved seriously with someone else and still have this casual relationship with her."

"I don't think you are either." Sam said as she tightened her grip on Drew's hand.

"I also found out something else," Drew said. "The memories didn't come to me until this morning and I am trying to decide what to do about it but Oscar is most definitely not my son."

A/N: I had intended for this chapter to be filled with fluff and humor but wanting to include more moments and details so it didn't turn out like I had planned it. But hope you like it anyway.

Even though my version of events with Michael and Nelle are sadder, I decided that there wasn't gong to be a baby switch at all. I hate that crap, mostly because writers these days don't know how to write any kind of storyline that keeps the audience interested through the whole thing. The first baby switch story I remember was on One Life To Live. It was Brad, Jenny and Kat. Brad and Mary were married and Kat was the mistress. I think they were supposed to be friends. They were of course pregnant at the same time. Jenny's daughter died and her cousin Susan (Judith Light, I believe) switched the babies. I think Jenny had that baby girl for two years. I hated it that Jenny had to give that baby to Kat the home wrecker. I hated missing any of it when I had to go back to school. We didn't have a vcr yet to record it.

Sorry, for bringing Oscar and Kim into it but I have plans for them that do not include Drew and Sam.

I do have the next chapter mostly written so hopefully I will have it posted in a couple of days.