A/N: I apologize if what you read in this chapter offends you with the subject matter. I have been hesitating to post this one. I just felt the writing last year for this story was incomplete and everyone took the word of bad guys without any proof. How do we know that the brain washing wouldn't work on Jason because of his brain damage? Was it even tried? Who are P1-5? I want to explore these questions in the coming chapters as well as explore the fall out for those that are collateral damage of the experiments. They could have done so much with this story but they didn't have the guts to do any of it.

I made P6 A.J. because someone made a joke about it on twitter months ago and the thought stuck. At times I actually liked A.J. better than Jason. And I though Monica should have her son back even though he can be a douche.

Chapter 9

First week of October

For Sam the next week was filled with packing and getting ready for the movers to move her and the kids to their new home. It wouldn't be a complete home until Drew was able to move in with them but she had faith it would happen soon.

She didn't concern herself with the fact that she hadn't told Carly, Sonny, Michael or Spinelli about P6. They were all adults and they could protect themselves even if she felt a little petty. It wasn't just how they had treated Drew after P6 showed up but how they all forgot every good thing he had done for them. He had been there for all of them and they had turned their backs on him. She was most surprised about Robin though. Drew had taken her place on a bomb to save her life and that of her unborn child.

Drew was going to talk to Monica today after they had the videoconference with Team Bartowski. He wouldn't have the memories that he needed to be able to tell her what happened to Jason but hopefully he would be able to tell her A.J. was alive if not really himself. It was a complicated situation.

Drew was cleared to do a procedure tonight. Sam had taken possession of the flash drive he had that still had three more downloads for him to complete. Both flash drives were in her briefcase and she carried it with her almost everywhere. She kept it in the safe at home in the evenings and the safe at the office during the day.

They were both happy to hear from Frisco that he sent Dante home to work on this case. They both felt like they could trust him. Dante was concerned about Peter as much as they were. Lulu was working for him and somehow Peter had gotten Maxie to forgive and forget and let him be a part of James' life. They were all concerned of the potential danger to them.

The cover was he quit the WSB because he was tired of being away from his family. He had found the guy that had tried to kill Lulu so it was a good time. He decided he didn't want to work for the police again. Instead Sam and Curtis decided to bring him on as an investigator to help with some cases.

There was a knock on the door bringing her out of her musings.

"Drew?" Sam asked with surprise. "What are you doing here? Not that I don't always want to see you but I wasn't expecting you."

After looking around and not seeing Danny or Scout, he bent down and kissed Sam deeply on the mouth.

"Good morning." He greeted her. "I thought I would come help you get the kids ready this morning. It is going to be a busy day."

"Have you thought about how you are going to explain all this to Monica?" Sam asked with concern.

"I am going to have the DNA reports with me as well as the scans." Drew said. "Then I am going to promise her that I will not stop until I found out what happened to Jason."

"Daddy!" Danny exclaimed at the top of the stairs. "I missed you."

"You saw me two days ago when you were at grandma Monica's" Drew answered.

"That doesn't count." Danny insisted. "You need to be here with Me, Mommy and Scout."

Sam and Drew just looked at each other and shrugged. They had agreed they were not going to tell Danny they were getting back together until Drew could move back in with them.

"Well let's get you dressed and ready for school." Drew told him as he directed him to his room.

Sam went up behind them and went in Scout's room to get her up and ready.

Drew took Danny to school and Sam took Scout to daycare. They met up at the PI office and disappeared into the secret room.

Dante and Drew shook hands after they entered the room.

"It's good to have you back." Drew told him.

"It's good to be back." Dante said. "I am glad I wrapped up the mission I was on so I could come back and help with this one. I don't like the idea of this guy taking advantage of my wife."

"Well," Sam added. "We don't either. Her and Maxie are at risk and there is something that everyone can agree on it is that they need to be protected from Peter."

"Greetings, Team Dream!" a loud voice came from the large television screen.

They all looked up at the screen and saw a short man with dark hair and a beard.

"Morgan Grimes." Drew said flatly.

"Honored that you remember me." Morgan said with excitement.

"Don't get too excited," Drew told him. "I only remember your name."

Drew could see Morgan visibly shrink at the knowledge that Drew didn't remember him.

"Well," he recovered quickly. He went on excitedly "I came on early because everyone has been neglectful of giving you a team name. What do you think of Team Dream? See it is a combination of both of your names."

"And why do we have to have a team name?" Sam asked with impatience.

"Well," Morgan sounded a little put out that he had to explain. It was something that was obvious to him. "We are Team Bartowski here in Burbank and Chicago. You guys need a team name too."

"How about you just call us the Dream Team." Curtis piped in with amusement.

They all just nodded their heads in agreement. If Morgan was going to insist on assigning them a name it might as well be Dream Team.

"If we have that out of the way can we get to why we are meeting?" Ellie said as she appeared on the other side of the screen.

"Please do," Drew prompted. Chuck, Sarah and Casey had joined Morgan and Devon had joined Ellie.

"I am concerned about some of these results." Ellie began. "I will begin with the less complicated result. The DNA for Michael Corinthos indicates he is the biological son of P6 and that Drew and P6 are brothers."

Even though Dante had been briefed on the situation he was flabbergasted. He felt like he was in a Twilight Zone episode.

"I think these are the results most of us were expecting." Drew said as he crossed his arms. Then he asked her, "What results are you concerned about?"

"I think Sam and Drew should hear these results first." Ellie said emphatically. "Then they can decide how to proceed."

Sam reached out and grabbed Drew's arm. "Is this bad news about Danny? Did you find something wrong with my son?"

Without saying a word, part of the screen disappeared and it was just Ellie and Devon watching them. Drew and Sam were terrified as they watched Dante and Curtis leave the secret room.

"Danny is fine," Ellie told them. "I am more concerned for Drew really and you Sam. Drew, Danny is your biological son."

Both Sam and Drew fell into the chairs around the conference room table. "How is this possible?" Sam finally got the question out.

"That is why I took some extra time to give you the results." Devon answered. "I wanted Ellie to take another look at Drew's brain scans through this process. Most neurologists wouldn't notice the microscopic markings that each download will cause."

"After further examination of Drew's scans," Ellie picked up the story. "The markings indicate that someone has been messing with your memories long before they replaced your memories with Jason's at the end of 2012."

They both just sat there speechless as Ellie continued. "I hate to ask this but I really want Drew to delay anymore downloads. I don't know how many of the downloads I have sent have actual fake memories intermingled in with Drew's real memories. We need to go through your military records with a fine tooth comb and see where they could have switch you two."

"Well," Sam gulped largely. "September 2011 is definitely a time they were switched. That was our first wedding and when Danny was conceived."

They lost track of time as they just sat at the table. Ellie had long been gone from the screen.

"Sam," Drew said as he hesitantly took her hand. He was happy that she didn't pull away from him like he expected. "I am so sorry. This whole situation is just weirdly creepy. I wouldn't blame you if you never wanted me to touch you again."

She looked at him confused. She shook her head to clear her mind.

She squeezed his hand reassuringly. "I am too stunned to decide how I feel about any of this. I know that anything that happened over the years was not your fault. We were all three victims of someone's experiments. I was just sitting here thinking I could pinpoint several times it seemed like you/he was a different person. Maybe we need to start with those moments. I will start a timeline beginning when I met Jason and will go from there."

"I am going to go ahead and move out of the penthouse and into our house." Sam continued. "That is if you don't mind. I mean nether place is really mine. The penthouse was Jason's and you bought this new place. I'm not sure I legally own anything anymore. This means my marriage to Jason wasn't even legal because it was you I actually married. The legal implications of this are going to be incredible for someone to figure out."

"I'm sure your mother will be up to the task." Drew tried to joke even though the situation wasn't funny at all. "I want you to move into the house and take as much time as you need to sort things out. I think I need time as well. To find out that I was someone's lab rat for most of my adult life is rather disturbing. I'm sorry that you became someone's collateral damage."

"Well," Sam sighed heavily but putting a positive note in her voice. "I have two beautiful children that have an amazing father. We just have to work through the rest."

"Don't you feel violated?" Drew asked her with concern.

"Do you?" Sam asked instead of answering his question.

"I have very mixed up feelings about it." Drew answered truthfully. "A part of me is ecstatic that Danny is my son but at the same time I can't celebrate it because of the circumstances that it happened.

Sam took both of Drew's hands in hers and said sadly, "I feel the same way. This situation we are in now makes last year a walk in the park."

Drew finally felt steady enough to stand up. He bent down to kiss Sam on the top of her head. He wasn't sure he should do it but it was more out of habit and his inherent need to have physical contact with her.

"I'm going to the office to take care of a few things then arrange to meet Monica later in the afternoon."

"After I take care of a few things here I think I will go see my mother as well." Sam told him as she pulled him into a hug as she got to her feet. "I don't know if she is equipped to handle figuring this out but I can ask."

"Only thing is," Drew said as something occurred to him. "She has to keep this to herself. She can't talk to Diane about this. She would tip off P6 and I don't think we are ready to tell everyone who he is yet. We have to get Shaw and Peter first. And I am not ready to call him A.J. yet because he really isn't A.J. right now."

"It just feels like for every step we take forward we are dragged twenty steps back." Sam said with frustration.

"All we can do is move forward and when we are ready we can make some decisions that have to be made. We just need more information first."

Drew left Sam in the secret room after giving her a quick kiss on the check. He knew she needed more time to process what they had just found out. Hell, he didn't know if they could ever process this and recover.

He let Dante and Curtis know they would tell them what was going on after Sam and him had more time to deal with what they found out.

Later that afternoon

"Drew," Monica greeted him with a hug and a kiss on the cheek as she ushered him into her office. "I hope everything is alright. You didn't say on the phone just that it was urgent that you speak to me."

"I'm sorry Mom," Drew started. "I have been keeping something from you. At first I didn't tell you because I didn't have proof. It was only a theory but I have proof now and I need to show it to you. It is very shocking and I hate having to tell you about this."

Drew pulled her office door closed and took out his phone and emailed the reports with A.J.'s brain and body scans and the DNA result. "I just sent you an email that contains the proof of what Sam and I have learned."

"You and Sam," Monica said questioningly. "What does Sam have to do with this?"

"Please just look at the email." Drew pleaded with her. "I don't know of any other way to tell you this."

"Why would you have A.J.'s old scans and a DNA test for him and Michael?" Monica asked with confusion. She didn't care that the dates on them were recent, nothing else made sense.

"This is the hard part," Drew said with trepidation. "Those scans were taken two weeks ago and the DNA test was sent three months ago. It took so long because I was doing a complete comparison of my DNA with 'Jason's' DNA. But it wasn't 'Jason'. It was A.J."

"How is this even possible?" She asked him with her hand partially over her mouth. "I don't understand. I was right there when he flat lined and they couldn't bring him back."

"All I know is the people that are behind this have technology that can bring people back if they get to them early enough." Drew tried to explain. "I will get you in touch with the Woodcomb's. They are both doctors and they can explain it much better than I can. They know more about the memory mapping than I think Andre knows. Ellie Woodcomb's father, Steven Bartowski, started the actual research that Andre based his research."

"I don't know what they plan for A.J. but know that he is under constant protective surveillance." Drew reassured her. "I can only guess here but I believe they had A.J. in a coma until after I had the chip removed and they couldn't control me anymore. They sent him to that clinic in Russia to give him plastic surgery to look like Jason and then they replaced his memories with Jason's."

"So is he even A.J. anymore?" Monica asked in despair. "And what happened to Jason?"

"For right now," Drew attempted to explain. "He is not A.J. For all intents and purposes he is Jason. I don't know yet what they did with Jason but I promise you I am going to find out."

"Will he ever be A.J. again?" Monica found herself asking. She didn't know how she was still having a conversation with Drew. "And how did you two even start to think this was a possibility?"

"I don't know if he will ever be A.J. again, that will be a question for Ellie. She is at the top of this research so she may have a way." Drew answered her. He had been anticipating the other question. He had a complicated answer.

"Sam just had a feeling really," Drew began. "A.J. was extremely invested in spending time with Michael but not so much with Jake and Danny even though he thought Jake had died before he disappeared. Then he didn't make much effort to spend time with Danny even though he found out that Danny was his son. He wasn't in any hurry to even tell Danny he was his father."

"Don't you think all of that could be explained with him just having problems integrating back into his own life?" Monica asked gently.

"Maybe," Drew looked at her and took her hands. "I decided to do the tests because of Danny's reaction to him."

"What reaction?" Monica asked with surprise. "He was very sweet with him and welcoming."

"Yes he was," Drew answered. "But I think it was because I asked him to be. And Danny hasn't wanted to go stay with him anymore lately. Do you remember how Danny was when I first came to town? No one knew who I was yet Danny ran into my hospital room when I was in bandages and every time he saw me for the next year."

"I just had to be sure he was who he said he was." Drew continued. "They compared my fingerprints to my service records. There were no Jason Morgan prints to compare his too and they didn't think of just running his prints through the system to see if he came back as anyone else. They just all believed the face."

"I hate to put you in this position," Drew went on. "Please don't tell anyone else. Not even Michael." He hurried on with his reasoning when she was about to interrupt him.

"If Michael knows he will end up telling Carly and Sonny." Drew told her.

"You are correct about that." Monica admitted. "That could be very dangerous for A.J. because of how they feel about him and what happened the last time he came home. I will keep this a secret for the sake of his safety. Please promise me you are doing all you can to keep him safe."

"I promise you," Drew pledged to Monica. "I am not only doing all I can to keep him safe but I am doing all I can to find out what happened to Jason."

"Come on," Drew said as he pulled her up. "Let's go get some dinner and then head home. It has been a mentally draining day."

Monica silently agreed with him as she grabbed her bag and headed out the door. She had so many questions going through her head that she held back in asking. She could tell there was more to the story but she didn't think she was ready for the answers so she didn't voice the questions. Something told her that Danny was the key to most of those answers. She decided they had both had enough for the day.