A/N: Sorry for such a long delay. My son had bronchitis then I got bronchitis. It's been a rough month. This chapter doesn't have much Sam and Drew in it, but I think they are all going to be in California the next chapter at least for part of it. There needs to be a family reunion with A.J., Monica and Jason then I think it will jump to after Oscar's death. Below is a more inclusive cast list for Chuck because more of those characters show up in this chapter and in following chapters.
Chuck Bartowski - Zachary Levi
Sarah Walker - Yvonne Strahovski
Col. John Casey - Adam Baldwin
Carina Miller - Mini Andén
Morgan Grimes - Joshua Gomez
Alex McHugh - Mekenna Melvin
Dr. Ellie Woodcomb - Sarah Lancaster
Dr. Devon Woodcomb - Ryan McPartlin
Stephen J. Bartowski - Scott Bakula
Mary Elizabeth Bartowski - Linda Hamilton
Brigadier General Diane Beckman - Bonita Friedericy
Roan Montgomery - John Larroquette
Zondra - Mercedes Masohn
Cole Barker - Jonathan Cake
Michael "Big Mike" Tucker - Mark Christopher Lawrence
Bolonia Grimes - Patricia Rae
Kathleen McHugh - Clare Carey
Chapter 19
Secret hospital near Burbank
"What are you doing here Robin?" Patrick asked angrily. "How did you know I was here?"
"I put a tracker on your phone in case you got kidnapped." Robin answered as if it was so simple. "It's not like it hasn't happened to me twice. Now please, you two have some explaining to do."
"I don't think so," Jason answered angrily. "I don't want you here. You need to leave."
"But why?" Robin asked in surprise.
"All I remember is feeling an uncontrollable anger toward you," Jason answered her. "All I remember is it was you that told A.J. Michael was his son. I had nothing but trouble from A.J. after that. He even kidnapped Micheal and faked his death."
"What happened to you since I saw you last?" Robin asked incredulous. "You don't remember that we got past that and became friends again. You helped me when I had post-partum depression after I gave birth to Emma."
"I don't remember any of that." Jason told her adamantly. "Will you please leave. You being here is bothering me and I want you to leave."
"Come on Robin," Patrick said to her as he took her arm to guide her back out of the room. "We have a lot to discuss and we can't do it in front of him because he doesn't like you anymore."
"What happened to him since I saw him almost a year ago?" Robin demanded as they just made it out of the room. She yanked her arm out of his hand.
"You didn't see him almost a year ago," Patrick said adamantly. "That is the real Jason Morgan and you haven't seen him since around 2011. It was probably Drew that actually helped you when you had post-partum depression."
"What are you talking about?" Robin demanded again. "I know Jason Morgan and Jason Morgan is the one that helped me after I gave birth to Emma."
"Well, you could possibly be wrong," Patrick took a little too much pleasure in telling her.
Both of their heads jerked up and looked as they heard someone rush toward them. It was Ellie with what looked like a gun in her hands. She was pointing the gun at Robin.
Patrick quickly pushed Robin behind him, "Hold up, Ellie! This is my wife Robin."
"I really don't care who she is," Ellie said forcefully. "She isn't supposed to be here. Jason has been through enough. I am not taking any chances. Patrick, escort your wife to my office."
Ellie walked behind them pointing the gun at their backs. They didn't have to know it was a tranq gun and Ellie didn't have any reason to tell them.
"Sit down so we can have a little chat." She told them as she pointed to a couple of chairs in front of her desk. They watched her as she pushed a button on her desk to turn off an alert. "My brother and sister will still be coming but they will stop at shooting first and asking questions later with that turned off."
"Ellie," They heard over an intercom. "Sit rep please!"
"Robin crashed the party," Ellie answered the voice. "Everything seems to be under control. I am about to find out if she met our patient."
"Robin," Said the voice. "I hope you didn't push back Jason's recovery. You are too sit there, listen to Dr. Woodcomb and do exactly as she says. If you deviate in any way you will find yourself in a jail cell next to Damien Spinelli."
"Frisco," Robin gasped as there was a sound like a hang up. "What is going on here?"
"Patrick, I trusted you." Ellie ignored Robin's question. She would get to her later. "I brought you in on this because you were his doctor before. Your wife wasn't supposed to be involved because of the nature of what they did to his brain, but since she is here, what was his reaction to seeing her."
"Just to be clear," Patrick looked at Ellie with trepidation. "I didn't tell her anything. She has a tracker on my phone that I didn't know about. I also didn't know I was going to be treating Jason before I got here. I wouldn't have told her even if I had known."
"Patrick," Robin said angrily. "So much for loyalty."
"You would have insisted on coming with me." Patrick said with exasperation. "You wouldn't have been able to take the fact you were not invited or wanted. You would have insisted that you had to come save 'Your Jason', no matter that he is not 'Your Jason'. To be truthful 'Your Jason' doesn't exist and he never did."
"Shut-up!" Ellie yelled at them. "This is getting me nowhere! What was Jason's reaction to seeing her if he did see her?"
"He became very agitated and wanted her to leave." Robin huffed as she crossed her arms in front of her in her irritation.
"I am going to instruct you to leave Robin," Ellie said very strongly. "Your presence here will make his condition worse. I will leave Patrick here to explain what happened to him. You can read her in on the entire story but only with the understanding that she will leave here and not come back until she is invited."
"One more thing, Robin," Ellie said forcefully. "If I see you here again when you are not invited, I will shoot you and you will wake up next to Spinelli. Am I understood?"
"Yes," Robin answered with trepidation.
"Fine," Ellie said. "Stay in my office until you two have things hashed out. Actually, Patrick, you might want to leave afterward and us start fresh in the morning."
"I will consider that after I am done here." Patrick told her.
Ellie dropped a folder in front of him on the desk as she moved to leave the office. "You will need to go over that if you are going to stay on the case. I think Robin will need to review it as well so she will understand why her services will NOT be needed here. And another thing, you two will not discuss this case anywhere else but here. I don't want the name Jason Morgan coming out of either of your mouths if you are not in this building. If they find him again, they will kill him."
Robin was a little disconcerted when she heard the door lock after Ellie left the room. "What is going on Patrick? And who is that woman?"
"She is a neurologist that probably knows more about the brain than anyone on earth. She is also someone you don't want to mess with." Patrick answered her with relief that Ellie had left the room.
"Well," Robin began smartly. "I am someone she doesn't want to mess with either. I am the daughter of two WSB agents.
"Robin," Patrick began with annoyance. "What ever you are thinking forget it! She and her husband were CIA doctors; her brother and sister-in-law were the top two CIA officers in the country. They have come out of retirement to rescue Jason as well as many others. They are adamant that the success of their mission depends on absolute secrecy."
"They only brought me into it because of my history with Jason and Drew vouched for me. They didn't want you involved until they were sure of the extent of the brain damage that Jason has endured because of Faison and his people's experiments."
"But I was his doctor as well," Robin insisted stubbornly.
He ignored her childish remark and went on, "Let's read the diary together, then you are going home to be with the kids. After I discuss a few things with Ellie, I will be home right behind you."
"Don't argue with me," Patrick insisted at seeing her mouth open to argue with him. "Or you can go home right now and not have anything to do with this investigation. I will let them put you in that jail cell next to Spinelli. I think I will ask for pictures."
Robin huffed as she moved her chair closer to Patrick's so she could read the diary with him. The file folder had Jason Morgan, Andrew Cain and Alan Jr. Quartermain written on the front as well as photographs on the inside front cover.
Instead of saying anything else to each other they both begin reading the papers in the file.
Excerpt from Faison's diary: December 1995
A.J. Quartermain inadvertently interfered with my plans for the first experiment with Jason Quartermain and Andrew Cain. Jason Quartermain may not wake up and I will have to find another set of twins separated at birth to study. In the meantime, I will do an experiment on Anna and Alex. They do not remember each other, and it should be relatively easy to implant memories into them both. It should be entertaining.
"Oh my god," Robin said as she brought her hand to her open mouth, then she reached to take the diary from Patrick to look for more information about her mother. "What did he do to my mother?"
"Robin, back off," Patrick said as he pulled the file away from her. "I am sure your mom already knows about all this. Why don't we take a break and you call your mom to ask her about it? Finding out that 'Your Jason' isn't exactly 'Your Jason' must be a big shock to you." She just huffed at him as she got her phone out of her pant pocket.
While Robin was on the phone with her mom, Patrick continued to skim through the diary. Patrick found some flags on Ellie's desk and marked the page he had been looking for. He looked up and saw that Robin was arguing with Anna. Anna had known about the experiments and she hadn't told Robin about it. She was angry with her dad as well because he had known about it too.
Patrick went back to skimming the diary until he got to mid-July of 2011. He knew that was around the time that Jason proposed to Sam, then in August of that same year they switched them back because they knew Jason needed brain surgery because of the mass in his frontal lobe that turned out to be a piece of the dashboard from the car accident with A.J. They were switched back in early September 2011. Faison was disappointed that he had to switch them back because there was another problem with Jason's brain that they wanted Patrick and Robin to fix.
The next entry was about Robin. He looked up and she was still on the phone with Anna. Faison deviated from his double goal plan of creating an army of mercenaries as well as getting a complete set of Jason Morgan memories into Drew's head and learning all he could about Sonny's business. He had already learned enough from Bernie to be able to siphon money away from the Corinthos Organization.
He had wanted everyone to believe Robin to be dead to make Anna vulnerable but to also to get her to treat Jason so he wouldn't have to keep switching them back and forth. However, Faison decided to leave Jason in Port Charles longer after that last surgery to give him more time to heal. The CIA and NSA threw their weight around and took Drew on assignment, so he didn't have access to him for those months anyway.
There was a rant about a Brigadier General Diane Beckman because she would pull Drew for a NSA mission when he had wanted him for a special project or have him in Port Charles. She was always getting in his way. It was like she suspected what he was doing. She did it more and more toward the end of his project.
Finally, Faison had to give up on getting the procedures to work on Jason. The results were worse every time he tried to take out memories and implant new ones. At that point, Faison decided to get Drew back and stop switching them. He had a lot of the money from the Corinthos Organization at that point and he decided to take over the operation disguised as Duke Lavery.
Ellie jumped after she turned around from checking on Jason and ran straight into her mother.
"Sorry, Ellie," Her mother, Mary Bartowski,looked at her apologetically. "Old habits."
"I see your old habits." Ellie said as she pointed to the handgun with a silencer on it that she had grabbed before running to her daughter. "I hope the kids didn't see that."
"Ellie," Mary said with exasperation. "The kids are fine. All four of them are being entertained with stories told by Zondra."
Ellie was too tired to race down to the school room they had set up for the kids. There was no telling what the ex-CIA officer was telling the four kids. It was probably a good thing only two of them were old enough to remember anything about the story.
"How is Dad today?" Ellie asked as they walked to the school room. She knew that her father didn't remember any of them. They had taken all his memories of his wife and two children away from all of them. Ellie was almost ready to preform a procedure on him like what she was able to do for Drew, except the procedure for her Dad would only be photos of their life together. Problem was there is a large gap in years when he disappeared when Ellie was a teenager.
Ellie hoped that the procedures would work for her Dad like they worked for Drew. That once he got some of the memories back with the procedure then some of his other memories came back on their own. She hated it that she was experimenting on her own Dad.
On the way to the school room she remembered she needed to send Chuck a message to monitor what was going on in her office. She sent him a brief explanation and he would let her know when they were leaving her office. She decided that she might have something for Robin to take care of after all. There were other patients they had found, and she suspected that at least a couple of them were from Port Charles.
Ellie's Office
Robin stopped lecturing her Mom and looked down at her phone. All the sudden her phone had gone dead.
"Did she get tired of being lectured and hang up on you?" Patrick asked with sarcasm.
Robin ignored him and took the diary away from him and began reading where she had left off.
"You might want to just look over the pages I bookmarked. Some of the entries have to do with you and the others are the relevant times Jason and Drew were switched. There are a few surprises in there."
"Drew was the one that helped me after I had Emma." Robin said with surprise. "How is this possible?"
"Keep reading," Patrick encourages. "It is much more complicated than that. Drew and Sam's heads must be spinning. The whole situation is rather weird."
She continued reading for several minutes until she got to summer of 2011.
"No way!" Robin yelled. "This can't be true!"
Before either of them could continue the conversation, they heard a noise on the other side of the office. They watched as a large screen came out of the ceiling.
Their mouths hung open as Sam and Drew appeared on the screen.
"We thought we should take part in this conversation," Sam told them. "The diary doesn't tell the full story especially what happened when we found out about the diary and all the experiments they did on Jason and Drew."
"Patrick, if you are going to continue treating Jason," Drew began. "We have to tell you what has been going on here. He doesn't know any of it and I want to keep it that way until I can get there to visit him."
"I'm sorry, Drew," Patrick looked sheepish. "He asked when you would be able to get here so I went ahead and told him about Oscar, and it may be awhile before you could make it here. I told him Monica and A.J. will be here to see him tomorrow."
"That is fine," Drew assured Patrick. "Just don't tell him anything about Danny and Jake. I know he will be over joyed that they are both alive, but I don't know what it will do to him when he finds out he is not their father."
"You're just going to take both of his children away from him!" Robin yelled at them. "And what are you going to do about the guy in Port Charles that is impersonating him."
Before Drew and Sam could say anything, Patrick exclaimed. "Stop being pathetic. According to the diary, Danny is not Jason's son. He is Drew's. I am sure they are not planning on lying to Jason about the kids."
Drew sighed and rolled his eyes as he tried to keep from losing his temper. Sam had no such qualms.
"Robin," Sam yelled at her. "Stop being a know-it-all bitch. We would not lie to Jason about any of this. When we found out the existence of the diary, we did DNA testing on everybody including a few that we just wanted to be sure about and that included Jake. Jake isn't Drew's son either. He is Lucky's. We figured that Helena messed with the results like she did Aiden's. You know all too well how she liked to play God with all our lives."
Patrick, Sam and Drew could tell that Robin wanted to argue with Sam over all that was revealed but she really couldn't. She knew there were special DNA tests to determine maternity and paternity in twins. She knew by the tech that was in the hospital they were in that they had the capabilities to do the test.
Instead of arguing she just asked, "Who has been impersonating Jason? Faison did a good job of mapping the memories because he had information that he really shouldn't have known."
"You mean all the stuff I know," Drew said sarcastically. "And I'm not supposed to know either. Not because it was me, Drew, that was there with you, but I was the wrong 'Jason'"
"I guess I deserve that," Robin said snidely. "But can we move on?"
"Robin," Patrick said. He quickly put the front of the file folder in front of Robin's face. "The answer has been in front of our face the whole time we have been in this office."
"A.J." she said in shock. "But Sonny shot and killed him."
"Yea," Patrick began again. "And you were supposed to be burned up in a fire."
"Point taken." Robin admitted. "Does he know he isn't Jason?"
"Yes, he does." Drew answered her. "Peter has deprogrammed him and Ellie has been slowly replacing his Jason memories with the A.J. memories. She is leaving the fighting skills that they implanted from me in case he needs them. We are still working on located the last Ring member. We have a lead, his son is here in Port Charles."
Before Robin could ask any questions, the office door was unlocked, and two people came through the door and Sam and Drew were excitedly asking the couple questions. Then Robin noticed the woman was carrying a newborn baby.
"Meet Andrew Irving Casey." Carina faced the baby toward the screen for Sam and Drew.
"Ohh.. you named him after Drew and Chuck." Sam gushed as she looked at the baby. "I hope to be there soon to meet him in person."
"Why would you name him after me?" Drew asked in surprise and embarrassment.
"I know you remember some of it," Carina told him as she looked back up at Casey. "But you were there for both of us on missions and you did put up with me a lot. I can be high maintenance."
"I am sure we all helped each other." Drew told her.
"Are we done expressing 'lady feelings'?" John asked with exasperation. He took the baby from Carina. "Our son needs to be put down and probably needs a change first."
"Who are these people?" Robin asked with exasperation. "This is a mad house."
"I am Corporal John Casey." Casey answered her with pride. "This is Carina Miller. We not only worked with Drew in the past, but we are his family. It just took us awhile to find him."
Without another word Casey walked out of the office and left Carina to lock up if it was necessary.
Robin decided to remain quiet and read through the diary more as Drew and Sam discussed babies with Carina. Patrick joined her. They both had a lot of reading to do if they were going to catch up with what all was going on in the situation.
She was half listening to the conversation as Carina was telling them about a couple named Alex and Morgan having a daughter that they named Samantha Kathleen. Before she could help herself, she muttered, "Why would this couple name their daughter after Sam?'
Patrick gave her a look that said, 'Shut up!'
"Robin," Sam said with gritted teeth. "The baby is not named after me! She is named after Sarah. Her birth name was Samantha. Now if you wouldn't mind, go back to your reading. We have a lot to catch you two up on before we have to go pick up the kids. I know you have kids to get back to as well."
"On that note," Carina said. "I will leave you four alone to get caught up. I want to spend as much time with my two guys before we get started with more searches."
"Carina," Sam said. "Shouldn't you take more time to recover? You just gave birth."
"We have to find as many of The Ring's victims as we can and get them to their families." Carina answered her sadly. "We have our families. I guess becoming a mother has changed me. A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have cared so much. I will be doing research on the other possible locations to see if we can narrow them down."
"Oh, Robin," Drew said getting Robin's attention. "In case you were wondering, Ellie let me know that your little escapade didn't effect Jason as much as first thought. He actually went to sleep soon after you two left the room."
"Let's get down to business," Drew said to Patrick and Robin after Carina left the office. "We have a lot of history to go over and get you two caught up on."
A/N: Please leave suggestions for the Port Charles residents that might have been found and others to be found later. There is only one that I have made my mind up about but not sure about any others. I will try not to take as long with the next chapter, but I want to re-read what I have written. I have a feeling I have a few holes to fill.