A/N: Happy Thanksgiving!

I am not aging Scout. She is about 2 & 1/2 and Danny is almost 8. Since I really don't like doing actions scenes, I am going to do mostly relationship building for this chapter and tell what has happened in different characters point of view. I have had a lot of Frisco in this story as he will be directing the action. He was my favorite from the time period he was on the show and hated it that they made him a dead-beat father like they are doing to Lucky now.

I think I forgot to mention Sarah's mom Emma was played by Cheryl Ladd and Jack Burton was played by Gary Cole. Another Chuck character I bring in for a little bit is Alex Frost and she was played by Tricia Helfer.

Chapter 23

Carmicheal Private Jet

They had just gotten in the air when John looked over and Hector started moving around like he was waking up. He quickly pulled out the tranq gun and shot him again in the neck. Hector stopped moving and John put the gun away.

John was glad that Emma hadn't noticed. He was going to have to keep her distracted when he had to shoot him again. He figured he would have to shoot him one more time before they landed at LAX.

The plan was a team would meet them at the airport and take a still sleeping Hector to their holding cells in Castle. He was glad that Chuck and Sarah had kept Castle maintained and functioning. Casey had a feeling it was going to come in handy in the coming months.

"Ya know Casey," Emma said without opening her eyes. "It would have been easier to give him an injection of something stronger than to keep tranqing him like that."

"Yeah," Casey grunted. "But where's the fun in that?"

"Besides," Casey continued. "I need the practice. I haven't been out on a real mission where I have gotten to shoot someone in well over a year."

When she looked up at him, he decided to continue, "Carina and I have been focused on finding these facilities where people have been held and making sure that Andy arrived safely and healthy. I don't count practicing at the range that Chuck and Sarah have set up at Castle."

"I haven't spent as much time with you as I have Chuck and Sarah," Emma began. "But I sense you have gone through many changes since those two have been in your life."

"I have been Bartowskified." He stated simply. "Before I met those two, I was a soldier that never questioned an order. I just did it. I shut down all my emotions. I would not be having this conversation with you either."

"Chuck has that effect on people." Emma told him. "Even though I hadn't seen or talked to Sarah in the five years between her dropping Molly off with me and when Ryker found out about us, I could see the change in her. She was more open with her emotions. I knew she had fallen in love with Molly after rescuing her, but she insisted she had to walk away for Molly's safety."

"Drew was a little like that too." Casey said. "I think finding out about Chuck's parent's abandoning him and seeing how Chuck was open and honest with his emotions after experiencing that helped Drew trust again."

"Life seems to have worked out for him." Emma said. "I am sure he is still coming to term with how he and has brother were used for experiments all their adult lives. I couldn't imagine such a thing. I mean, I know that Jack loved me at some point, but in the end, I was still just another con to him."

"And yet, you were willing to put yourself in danger to help find him." Casey observed.

"I love my daughter," Emma said sternly. "That is the only reason."

Casey recognized that tone from when Sarah wanted a subject dropped.

"Why don't you get some sleep." Casey suggested. "I have to keep an eye on the package."

Without a word, Emma settled back down in her seat and closed her eyes. She didn't immediately fall asleep. She was lost in her thoughts wondering if what she told Casey was the whole truth.

Medical Facility Conference Room

"I am tired of arguing with you about this!" Frisco yelled at Maxie. "You should be at the safe house with your husband and children not here arguing with me."

"I just want to go see her and bring Georgie to meet her aunt." Maxie said emphatically.

"Maxie, I haven't found anyone yet to work at the restaurant that can find out if she is being watched and to keep her safe. We have to wait until we can do that." Frisco insisted.

They both turned as someone came into the room.

"Sorry," Casey said. "Just wanted to let you know we were back, and the package is in the Castle holding cell."

Casey was about to leave the room when Frisco stopped him.

"How long has it been since you worked undercover as a bartender?" Frisco asked him.

Casey rolled his eyes, knowing what was coming.

"Set it up," Casey told him with resignation. "I am going to check in on Carina and Andy."

"Good," Frisco said to Maxie. "I will have him start tonight. He will have some information for us in a few days when it might be safe for us to see her again."

Jason's Hospital Room

Jason was sitting up in his bed trying to catch up on what had gone on in the world while he had been in a coma. Ellie had given him a tablet computer and had taken the time and patience to show him how to use it. It was mostly depressing so he turned the news app off. The news in print was just as depressing as what he saw on the T.V. He opened the book app that Ellie had shown him and looked at the available books.

He had just found a crime novel that sounded interesting when he heard a knock on his door. He looked up to see Drew with a baby girl in his arms.

"Come in," Jason told him. He then noticed Drew was holding hands with a little blonde haired, blue-eyed little boy. He held his breath realizing it was Danny.

He was so grateful that Danny was alive and that he hadn't been responsible for his death after all. He didn't remember all of what happened during that time. What he did remember he wished he could forget. He had talked to Ellie about what had happened, and her theory is that he had impulse control problems because of the brain surgery and then also thinking Robin had died saving him.

"Are you up for a visit with your niece and nephew?" Drew asked him as he and the kids came into the room.

"Sure," Jason said giving them a genuine smile.

"Kids," Drew told them. "This is your uncle Jason."

"Nice to meet you," Danny told him as he put his hand out to shake hands. "I'm Danny."

"It's wonderful to finally meet you." Jason told him.

"Have you been sick?" Danny asked. "I know that Grandma Monica wants you to come home soon."

"How's the physical therapy going?" Drew asked him to change the subject. He knew Jason wasn't ready to come back to Port Charles yet.

"I am getting stronger." Jason told them. "Dawn has been helping with my PT. She took me walking down the hall and back. It's a lot better than last week when I first woke up."

"I am glad you both have reestablished a relationship." Drew told him as he sat down in a chair, keeping Scout in his lap.

"Are we interrupting your reading?" Danny asked as he pointed to the tablet.

"I was just trying to catch up on the news I missed while I have been sick." Jason told him. "It was overwhelming, so I decided to read a novel instead."

"How are you doing Scout?" Jason asked the little girl with a big smile.

She grinned back at him and started shaking her sippy cup up and down and getting her juice all over her and Drew.

"She enjoys giving herself a juice shower as well as anyone around her." Drew told him as he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped her face and his.

"I actually remember Michael doing that." Jason said sadly. "Does he know what is going on because I would really like to see him."

"Carly and Sonny were told not to tell him yet." Drew explained. "Luckily, he has been out of town on business and I would hope they wouldn't tell him something like this over the phone. Sam and I are going back to Port Charles tomorrow and I will be having meetings around town to let some people know what is going on. This situation is getting too big to keep a secret. If we don't start telling people, it may put them in danger. I also have to tell Elizabeth about Jake and Lucky, which I am not looking forward to."

"I bet not," Jason agreed. He got a sad look in his eyes about Jake not being his.

Jason had nothing but free time to reflect and ponder his most stupid decisions in his life. At least the ones he remembered. Ellie seemed to think the brain damage had slowed enough that he might have a semblance of a life for a while before the deterioration effected his ability to live his life. He wanted to live what was left of his life making a difference in the lives of people that needed help and he knew that Drew was the one to help him.

"The three of us need to get together and discuss the finances." Jason said to Drew. "Me, you and A.J. After talking to him, I know you already paid him the money for Aroura Media. We discussed it a little bit and if you don't want the money back we both want to donate it to a charity along with some of the other money that you are wanting to pay back. You did some wonderful things for people while both of us were not around and we decided we didn't want to profit off it."

Drew was speechless as he tried to process what he told him.

"Without going into all the details," Jason didn't want to say too much in front of the kids. "You saved a few people that we had cared about, so you earned some of that money that you spent on Aurora Media and the hospital. You also saved our family legacy by getting ELQ from Nick. That was important."

"If you two are sure about that," Drew told him. "I have some ideas. Michael started a medical clinic in A.J.'s name to help the poor in town and there is also a homeless shelter that can always use the help. I think we should start there."

"That sounds like a plan." Jason agreed. "Michael should also be included in the plan."

Before they could get into anymore details, there was another knock on the door followed with Dawn peeking into the room.

"Sorry to interrupt," Dawn told them. "I thought both of you would want to know that Emily is awake."

"What is her condition?" Jason asked.

"She at least knows who she is," Dawn told them as she came fully into the room. "Ellie is in with her, as well as Mom and Dad."

Even though Alan wasn't technically her Dad like she thought she still thought of him that way. They were both getting treatments from Ellie to get back their memories. That last raid on a Ring facility had yielded a database of almost everyone's memories.

Unfortunately, it was an endless round of procedures and brain scans. Dawn was just glad she was on a break from it when Emily woke up.

"I think we should wait until Ellie gives us the all clear before we bombard her with visitors." Drew suggested. "I trust her judgement the most."

"What is up with that Doctor Robin?" Dawn asked. "She is being very territorial of Emily and Nicholas and every time I am checking on them, she comes up behind me and watches me."

"She is nosy and a know-it-all." Jason told her. "Don't let her get to you."

"I agree," Drew said with surprise. "Just surprised to hear you describe her that way."

"I am done making excuses for other people's bad behavior." Jason said. "Including my own."

"But aren't you being a bit mean?" Danny asked all the sudden.

"Sorry, Danny." Drew looked over at him. "Robin is a touchy subject for me and your Uncle Jason. She did some things and said some things that we haven't gotten over yet."

"Kind of like those stupid kids in Aiden's class that made fun of him because he likes to cook?" Danny asked.

"Yeah," Drew told him. "Kind of like that."

Drew got up from his chair and put Scout across his shoulder as she had fallen asleep. "Danny let's take Scout back to the school room and put her down for her nap and we will find you an activity to do. We can't have you falling behind in schoolwork."

"Fine." Danny huffed as he climbed off the bed. It was definitely more interesting to listen in on the adults talking than doing schoolwork.

Castle

Cole Barker and Alex Frost were escorting Hector Alcazar to an interrogation room in Castle. They were dressed in all black with masks. They had a black bag over Hector head as they forced him into a chair and handcuffed him to the chair.

Cole sent a text to Frisco letting him know they were ready.

"I demand to be released immediately!" Hector rages. "Do you know who you are messing with?"

After looking back down at his phone Cole went over to Hector and pulled off the bag. They watched him blink as his eyes adjusted to the bright lights. Hector looked dismissively at the two in the room with him and looked over at the screen that was in front of him.

He gasped as he saw Hank as well as Shaw in a jail cell with Hank holding a USA Today paper. The screen zoomed in on the date. The date was today's date if his calculations were correct.

"We know exactly who you are?" A digitized voice came over a speaker. "We don't need to rehash why Mr. Shaw is in jail but your son Hank has been a very naughty boy. Blackmail, kidnapping and rape just to start. You should have done a better job of keeping your young son out of trouble."

"What do you want?" Hector asked dejectedly.

"Not sure we need you for anything." Said the computerized voice. "We have plenty of data from your phone to analyze first. Then we may have some questions for you. For now, you can go back to your cell. You can let our officers there know if you think of anything that we may want to know."

Medical Facility Conference Room

"Where are we on getting his data from his phone?" Frisco asked Chuck and Jacob.

"I got into his financial records and am trying to find and off-shore accounts that he might be linked too as well." Chuck told him.

"I am mapping the finances as well as where he has been for the last two years." Jacob said. "It might give us some clues to who he may be working with or even for."

"I am going to leave him to stew for a couple of days." Frisco said to them. "Is that enough time to analyze the data?"

"Yes," Chuck and Jacob said at the same time.

Frisco turned around and looked up at the large screen in front of him. John Casey had installed cameras inside the kitchen, dining area, back and front of the restaurant. Between him, Casey, Felicia and Mac they would always have eyes on Georgie. Casey was also putting cameras at her apartment. He was considering putting Shawn in the kitchen to provide Georgie more protection.

Metro Court-Carly's office

"I don't want to see you!" Carly yelled when she looked up and saw Sonny standing in her doorway.

"I needed to talk to you about Jason." Sonny ignored her outburst. "I got a message from him."

"What did he say?" Carly asked frantically as she got up from her desk. "Where is he?"

"Calm down." He admonished. "It's not good for us. He doesn't want to see us, and he didn't say where he was."

"But why?" Carly whined. "Are you sure it was from him?"

"It was a video message." Sonny insisted. "I am sure it was Jason and not A.J."

"How do you know?" She demanded.

"He told me a story about Brenda, and she confirmed it. She said that only Jason would know. Kicker is, it was a story about them in high school."

"How is that possible?" Carly said skeptically. "He lost all those memories after the accident."

"This neurologist that has been helping Drew get his memories back, thinks it was all the time in the regenerator." Sonny told her as he pulled out the flash drive. "Here is the flash drive he sent to me. Your message probably doesn't have the story about Brenda. I erased mine off."

"Did you listen to it?" She asked as she took the flash drive from him.

"No," He answered. "I figured if he wanted me to listen to it, he would have just sent one and not two identified with our names."

"Just listen to it and know he means what he says." Sonny told her then he walked out of her office.

She stood there looking at the flash drive in hand. She was afraid to listen to it. Finding out that your best friend for the last twenty years had been exchanged off and on with an unknown twin was disconcerting.

She put the flash drive in her computer and almost immediately a video popped up on her computer screen.

It looked and sounded like Jason, she thought as he discussed what happened to him and how it affected his brain and memories. Then the stomach punch came.

"I wanted to keep this short and sweet," Jason said. "But with you two, I knew you would not leave Drew and Sam alone if I didn't give a detail explanation why I don't want to see either of you. The bottom line is even though I have some memories of us being reconciled, I still have an overwhelming feeling of betrayal when I think of you two. I still feel the stab in my heart when I think about walking in on you two that night. I had just gotten ambushed and almost died and you two were busy having sex."

Even if that wasn't the case," He continued. "I still wouldn't want to see you two for awhile if ever. We can never get that back. I have had a lot of time to think over the memories I do have and nothing good has come of it. The three of us together is toxic. Look what happened to A.J. and Michael. Even Sam has been hurt because of us. I get that there were extenuating circumstances, A.J. shouldn't have been drinking but Sonny shouldn't have stopped taking his medication either."

"I want you two to stay away from A.J. when he comes back." He said emphatically. "He is going to Russia to the plastic surgery clinic where he was held to see if they can give him back his original face. If he decides to go back to Port Charles after that, stay away from him even if Michael want to continue having a relationship with him. He has paid enough. I think we all have."

"So, please!" He begged. "Leave everyone alone, including me even if I end up back in Port Charles. I will let you know if I want to see you. You also need to leave anyone working on this case alone as well. You two could mess it up and put more people in danger."

The screen went blank and Carly fell back in her chair and just stared at her computer screen.