A/N: Sorry for the delay in getting this out. Having some health problems, I am having trouble dealing with. Next chapter will probably be awhile as well. Got a big project I have to focus on until it is done. Got to make some money.

Chapter 20

Robin was very happy that Ellie had relented and let her at least help with the research to help the patients recover more of their memories, if she stayed away from Jason. Patrick kept her advised in general terms on how Jason was doing, but it was frustrating for her because she used to be the one that led the research and treatment protocols.

The reunion with Monica and A.J. went well considering how weirded out Jason was at first when he saw A.J. They warned him that Faison and the others had given A.J. plastic surgery to look like Jason to replace him. It was even difficult some days for Robin to understand what had happened. Even knowing what had happened to her in her life, she still had a hard time seeing Jason's face but knowing it was A.J.

Drew and Sam also came later that day and Robin steered clear of them as much as possible. Patrick told her that would probably be for the best and for once she didn't fight with him about it. She was kind of glad not to be around all of it as they told Jason that even though the children that had been in his life were alive, they were not his children.

Jason was very upset and emotional when he heard the story of Sonny shooting A.J. and everyone believing he had died yet again. Monica just held him through the emotional meltdown.

No one understood where the emotions were coming from because he had not been able to show much emotion after the accident that caused the original brain damage. The working theory was that the emotions were caused by the back and forth use of the intersect. Their problem with figuring his behavior out was they did not have all his medical records. They had everything from Port Charles, but they did not have access to all the tests run on him by Faison and the Ring.

Robin knew they were having a meeting trying to decide how to proceed with Jason's medical care. She had not been invited to contribute so she was going down to the makeshift nursery/school room to check on the kids. She wasn't sure how she felt about ex-spies providing childcare. At least Emma was old enough to keep an eye on her brother.

Conference room in secret facility

"When can I bring Jason home?" Monica asked as she looked expectantly at Ellie.

Ellie had just told them that Jason's condition was stabilized for now.

"That is going to depend on him." Ellie answered as she looked around the room that contained Jason's family.

"It is also going to depend on what arrangements we can make to keep him safe." Drew told Monica. "As well as how we explain him and A.J."

"I have an idea about that." A.J. spoke up.

"Wait!" Ellie interrupted. "I have spent a lot of time with Jason. I am not sure he wants to go back to Port Charles."

"Why wouldn't he want to come home?" Monica asked. "His family is there."

"But there are also people there that he doesn't want to see." Ellie told her. "These are not the type of people that will stay away from him even if he asks them."

"Sonny and Carly." Monica said simply. "I don't want them around him either."

"All of this is moot anyway," Ellie said. "You need to ask him what he wants to do. If he does go home, he will need to have weekly scans that have to be sent to me so I can document his progress and more importantly make sure he doesn't start getting worse again."

"Let me talk to him alone," Drew said addressing Monica. "I know you want him home, but I am not sure that is the best for him for now. I promise I will not lead him one way or another."

"I know you won't." Monica said to him as she squeezed his hand.

Drew hugged her, then turned to Sam and kissed her on her forehead. "I'll be right back."

"I'll be in the school with the kids when you are done." She kissed him on the cheek.

Drew watched as A.J. and Monica followed Sam to the school to be with the kids before he turned in the opposite direction to Jason's hospital room.

Drew walked into the room quietly in case Jason was asleep. The room was dark. Jason preferred it that way because of the headaches he was experiencing. They had replaced the hospital bed with a more comfortable adjustable bed in the hope that he would sleep better and maybe not so much.

Drew quietly sat down in the chair beside Jason's bed and watched him sleep. Drew was horrified at what Faison and the Ring had done to him over the years.

When Drew had first seen Jason after arriving, he started remembering when he and Jason had first met after one of the times, they were both captured. They both had went through the same procedure, but it had caused Jason more pain than Drew. They basically had to watch them torture the other.

As he continued to watch Jason sleep, the guilt he felt was overtaking him. They had promised each other that they wouldn't stop until both had escaped and were safe from their kidnappers. They didn't know who was behind their kidnappings and they didn't understand why. Jason thought it was to take over Sonny's territory, while Drew was sure they wanted to turn him to use his combat skills or it was about one of the missions he had done for the CIA.

Drew realized that it was all the above really. Because the intersect was increasing Jason's brain damage they had to stop using it on him but the fact that they had Jason in the regenerator proved they had not completely given up. Otherwise they would have just let him die.

At least Drew had not made it easy for them to brain wash him because they had to put a chip in his brain to make it work. It was weird for Drew having memories of thinking he was Jason and then himself as they tried to brain wash him to sabotage missions for the CIA. He only did those missions with Chuck and Sarah's team and he had a loyalty to them that the brainwashing couldn't crack.

"How long have you been sitting here?" Jason asked him as he started sitting up in the bed.

"Not long." Drew answered him. "How are you feeling?"

"Better since the hospital bed is gone." He answered. "But for now, I still feel tired all the time."

"Ellie is hoping that will get better and you will have more energy." Drew told him. "Are you hungry?"

"I haven't had much of an appetite for anything either." Jason answered him. "I have had these conversations with Ellie. Didn't she tell you?"

"Not really," Drew answered him. "Ellie takes her oaths very seriously. Since you have woken up and you are cognizant enough to make your own decisions, she doesn't feel she needs to tell us much of anything. That is what she just told us anyway."

"So, everyone wants to know when I can go home." Jason surmised.

"Well," Drew hesitated but then went on. "I think Mom just wants you home so she can pamper you herself."

"I think you know I am not ready to be around certain people." Jason told him adamantly.

"Do you want to tell me why?" Drew asked, knowing he was talking about Sonny and Carly.

"You know how screwed up my memories are." Jason said to him. "I may have gotten over what they did all those years ago but since all this happened to me, every time I think about either of them, I feel enraged all over again."

"I understand the enraged feelings." Drew agreed with him. "They have been pretty insufferable to Sam and me for the last year."

"Things are just so confusing in my head." Jason said with frustration. "Could some of the memories I have of forgiving them actually be your memories?"

"Possibly." Drew said. "We can look over the journal and compare notes whenever your ready. You may want to slow down on things though. You were hit with a lot of changes when you woke up. Pretty much everything you thought when you were kidnapped turned out to not be true."

"You mean the kids and Sam?" Jason asked.

Drew noticed that even though Jason was more emotional he was still good at hiding those emotions sometimes.

"That among other things as well," Drew said carefully. "I laid a lot of news on you yesterday. Franco and my childhood connection to him. The fact that he married Elizabeth."

"I feel oddly detached from all of that for some reason." Jason told Drew. "Right now the only anger I feel is toward Carly and Sonny. Not just because I walked in on them after they had sex but also because of what they did to A.J."

"As for Sam and the kids," Jason began again. "I believe most of that detachment is because most of that was really you with Sam. I know I was there with Jake more when he was a baby while I was with Elizabeth for that short time, but I still feel detached. Maybe the intersect did me a favor in that regard."

"Maybe," Drew said. "I didn't want to tell you everything all in one day like that but when we were together after we were both kidnapped at the same time, we promised we would always tell each other the truth about everything. I don't need to feel guilty over anything else."

"What do you mean, guilty?" Jason asked. "We were both kidnapped. What could you have done about it?"

"We also promised each other that if either of us got away we would come back and get the other." Drew said sadly. "I wasn't able to do that. Who knows what kind of experiments they were doing on you while I was getting on with my life?"

"I thought I was the one with brain damage?" Jason said sarcastically. "Don't make yourself a martyr over this. It doesn't look good on you."

"A martyr? How am I doing that?"

"You are dwelling too much on what you had no control over." Jason told him seriously. "Be grateful you are able to get most of your memories back. I will forever be stuck with false memories intertwined with real ones. I can't have any procedures done because it will cause more brain damage. I think Ellie will have a problem with letting me undo all her work to save what is left of my brain."

"I do over analyze situations. Occupational hazard, I guess." Drew admitted. "That is another reason why I feel guilty. I've been able to move on and have a full life with a wife and kids that you thought were your own. What Faison and the Ring did to us was sick and twisted."

"You don't need to feel guilty about any of it." Jason told him. "We were both messed with and they took your memories of us meeting and plotting away from you. I was forced to watch them take those memories away. I felt guilty because I couldn't stop it."

"I guess we both have to let go of our guilt. I just feel like I have taken over your life and you are left with nothing." Drew admitted. "I just want you to be able to recover some semblance of a life. I want to help you as much as I can and as much as you will let me."

"I think I am doing better than you think," Jason said as he was able to maneuver himself where he was sitting on the side of the bed with his legs hanging over the side. "I am doing good with the physical therapy. I can walk short distances with just a special cane. I am prepared to just take it one day at a time."

Looked up at him with surprise, "This is great. Why didn't you tell us yesterday?"

"Too much going on with the information overload." Jason explained. "Look, I don't want to hurt Monica's feelings but I'm still not ready to go back to Port Charles. I don't know if I will ever be ready. Of course, I don't expect you to keep Carly at bay forever. I have to face her and Sonny sometime and face what they did to me and to A.J."

"To be honest," Drew said watching Jason getting more comfortable laying back on the bed. "I am worried about the security for you if you go back to Port Charles right now. But I imagine you are ready to get out of here."

"Considering I have problems keeping my eyes open most of the day, I don't have much choice but to stay near the bed." Jason said jokingly.

"Well, when you are ready, we need to go over finances." Drew told him seriously.

"I am not worried about any of that." Jason told Drew. "We both worked for Sonny off and on over the years and we both made the coffee warehouse a success. I know you and Sam are concerned about divorce settlements, but couldn't we just let Alexis or some other lawyer you trust to figure all that out?"

"Regardless," Drew noticed he didn't suggest Diane. "We need to go over every expenditure I made over the last few years and make sure you are reimbursed fairly for those."

"I know you spent a chunk to get ELQ back from Nicholas as well as donated some to help save the hospital. Let's leave those under the bridge. I like that you did those things. I don't know if I would have made the same choices, but they were good choices."

"I appreciate that," Drew said. "But I want to make sure that you get money back for the divorce settlements as well as Aurora Media."

"See," Jason looked at him humorously. "That I would not have done. Not even close."

"No," Drew laughed. "I guess not."

"Are you two ready for some lunch?" The question came from the door.

They both looked up at Sam. She still just had her head in the door.

"Who cooked it?" They both asked at the same time. They looked at each other and laughed again.

"Well," Sam said, adding a little agitation to her voice that she didn't really feel. "I didn't, so neither one of you have to worry I might give you food poisoning. Morgan's mother made pasta and garlic bread."

"So, it's not your world-famous mac n' cheese from the box?" Drew asked with humor.

Sam rolled her eyes, "No it is not. But it would serve you right if it was." She pushed a cart in the room with plates piled high with pasta and garlic bread and glasses of tea.

Jason's eyes got big when he looked at the plates. "I'm already having a hard time staying away for long periods of time. If I eat all that it will put me in a carb coma."

Sam and Drew looked at each other with surprise at Jason's joke.

He looked up at them. "What, I have been watching a lot of tv."

They all laughed together.

"I don't mean to ruin the mood between us, but I need to say something to Sam." Jason looked from Drew to Sam.

"Go ahead," Sam agreed.

"I am really glad that Danny didn't die," Jason said sincerely. "I do remember my part in what happened to him. I was too focused on my feelings to care about yours and I didn't consider the consequences of my actions."

"Things worked out in the end." Sam told him sincerely.

"Whatever happened to McBain?" Jason asked. "I'm just curious. I think I was kidnapped for the last time soon after most of that happened."

"John went on an undercover assignment for the FBI soon after we thought you were dead." Sam answered him truthfully. "I found out through Anna that when he finished that assignment, he went back to Landview and patched things up with his son's mother and they got married."

"Good for him." Drew said. "Glad he got his act together."

Later that day, Jason's room

Jason looked around the room. He was starting to get claustrophobic there were so many people in his room.

"Sorry, Jason," Ellie said. "If you would prefer, we can move to the conference room but it's not much bigger. In here, we wouldn't have to move you."

"Thanks, Ellie," Jason said with gratitude. "I will be fine in here as long as this doesn't take very long."

"Let's get started then," Ellie continued. "We will just discuss what was found earlier today. The rest of us can move to the conference room to discuss what we are going to do about it."

"Sarah and I went and checked out a possible Ring location this morning," Chuck address the room. He looked at all of them knowing he was about to blow their minds again. "It's a facility they were still using. Luckily for Sarah and I, it wasn't heavily guarded but they now know we are looking into their locations."

He mainly looked at the Quartermain family while he tried to carefully word what they had found. Sarah squeezed his hand in support. Beckman, Roan, Casey, Carina, Morgan, Alex and Devon were there in the room because they needed this update.

"I already updated Frisco on what we found. After we finish here, we will go to the conference room to video with him to strategize where we go from here."

"Not only did we find more regenerator pods with people in them, but we also found a logbook. It contains an extensive list of the people they have kidnapped over the years to run experiments. Some of the people in the logbook have had alternate identities implanted and they are living out their lives as someone else."

Chuck took a deep breath before continuing. "They were nice enough to catalog the entries by town. There is a whole section for Port Charles." Chuck looked at Monica sympathetically. "The Ring really had a thing about messing with your family."

He had made sure Monica was sitting beside Jason's bed before they had started this meeting and he was glad he did. The look of terror on her face was disconcerting. Instead of telling her anything he gave her several pieces of paper. They were copies of the Quartermain part of the logbook.

Her hands shook as she took the papers and looked down at them. Her whole body started shaking and Drew rushed to her side. He bent down in front of her and took the papers from her and read them himself.

"Where are they?" Drew asked with unexpressed emotion as he looked up at Chuck.

"We were able to safely move everyone here." Chuck answered him. He knew how important this was going to be for Drew knowing he was going through the same experience. "But for safeties sake. I believe, and Frisco agrees with me, we must move to another facility. Until we find Hector we are going to need to move around. It doesn't help that our entourage keeps growing."

"I have a problem with moving often," Ellie interrupted. "We don't know how moving these patients around is going to affect their health. It could be detrimental."

Drew looked over at Jason and could tell he was getting agitated.

"Chuck," Drew started. He squeezed Monica's arm as he stood back up. "I will trust whatever plan you guys come up with. I need to discuss what these papers say with Monica, A.J., and Jason. But can Ellie stay so she can answer any questions we may have?"

"I don't know if I will be much help," Ellie admitted. "I haven't been able to examine them all yet."

"But you know more about the intersect than anyone we know." Drew answered as he gave the papers to Jason. A.J. looked over his shoulder to see who was on the list. Drew ignored the gasps that came from Jason and A.J. "you are more equipped to answer any questions we probably have about recover time and really how we should proceed."

"I will do my best." Ellie promised. "Who do you guys want to start with."

"My daughter." Monica spoke up. "She has been with these people longer than anyone else. She thinks she is someone else. How do I approach her, or do I approach her? It's been so long she probably has another family."

"I haven't spoken to her yet." Ellie told her sympathetically. "I don't think she will be that surprised considering she was working as a nurse for these people. She was actually very confused that she was put in a holding cell when they first arrived."

"After we compared the records and realized who she was we moved her to a hospital room down the hall. She is waiting for someone to come tell her what is going on. I do want to exam her and run some scans to see if her memories can be restored. All I know for sure is that she believes that Alan is her father and Emily is her sister. She thinks she was working for the Ring to help Emily, which is also the reason Alan remained with them. I let Alan stay with Emily to keep an eye on her vitals. I think he is going to be vital to our goal of helping these patient's recovery."

"I want to go see her and tell her what is going on," Monica found herself saying. She also wanted to run to see Alan and Emily to see for herself that they were here. She would see them later. She wanted to seem like a sane person when he saw her for the first time, and she needed time to calm down for that. She had to calm down before she left Jason's hospital room.

She looked over at A.J. apologetically as she requested, "Drew will you take me to the room and wait outside the room in case I need you?"

"Of course, Mom." Drew answered her as he extended his hand to help her up.

Monica clung to Drew's arm as he escorted her out the door and down the hall.

"Are you sure you want to go in by yourself?" Drew asked her with concern.

"Just stay close, please." Monica said to him. She looked up into his concerned blue eyes. It calmed her knowing she could count on him. Of all her children, Drew was the farthest in treatment to recover his memories.

It was at that moment that Monica realized all her children had been targeted by this Ring and she wanted to know why.

She put the thought aside as she knocked on the door to let her know someone was about to enter.

"Finally," the woman said. "Are you the one that is going to tell me what is going on around here? I really need to check on Emily and my Dad."

Monica was speechless as she stared at her. She looked like Monica except her blonde hair was curly and shorter than it had been the last time Monica had seen her.

"Dawn!" Monica exclaimed. "I wanted to believe it was you, but I had to see for myself and I am still not sure I believe it is you."

A/N: Sorry guys, I had to do it. I hated GH when they killed off Dawn. I want Monica to have all her children back. They may not all deserve it, but she does.

There may be a few errors in my rush to get this out since it has been so long. Hopefully this project I am working on will be finished in a couple of weeks.