A/N: Sorry, I started this chapter right after I finished the last one but between the cold, wet weather making me sick and having to stay on top of getting my son to do his school work I just had trouble getting it done.
Chapter 24
Secret Medical Facility
They converted a large exercise/physical therapy room into the school room. It worked out because most of the occupants of the medical facility congregated there unless they were in the dining room. Hanging out with the children provided a distraction from everything that was happening. Morgan had thought to bring some of his video game consoles and games for the older kids to play as well as any of the adults that wanted to play. Mostly it was for him and Chuck.
Drew and Danny tried out some of the games before they left to go back to Port Charles. They used the Carmicheal jet with the insistence of Chuck and Sarah. A.J. was going to Russia from there. Taking the Carmicheal jet was a safer and secure way for A.J. to travel. Chuck and Sarah were surprised when Zondra insisted on accompanying A.J. to Russia. She argued that he would need protection because he didn't have the training even though Ellie had given him some self-defense knowledge in his last procedure.
Chuck didn't have many opportunities to play any of the video games when he went to the school room to spend time with Rebecca and Stephen. Sarah mostly stayed with the kids, but he liked it when she came into the conference room to look over his shoulder at what he was doing. She could see things he might not because he was too close to it.
These people had stolen his father's research and used it to harm members of his family. At that point Ellie didn't know if their father would ever recover his memories. His memories were not on the hard drive they had found. His Dad only had the one alias and his real name. He guessed saving his memoires under Orion would have been too easy. Chuck had been avoiding spending any time with his Dad. He kept putting Ellie off by saying he was busy putting this profile together of Hector's whereabouts for the last two years.
It wasn't a lie, but he could have brought in another member of the Carmicheal team to help. He wanted the distraction. One thing Chuck had never been good at was controlling his emotions and now was no different. He had so many going through him, he didn't know what to deal with first. He was angry Shaw was still alive even knowing they may need him to identify others in the government that were part of the Ring. Shaw was responsible for his Dad's memory problems and taking him away from he and Ellie after they had just found each other again.
While he loved it when Sarah would come in to spend a little time with him but at the same time it was getting harder and harder to hide these feeling from her. Him having murderous thoughts scared her. She didn't want to lose 'Her Chuck' as she called him. Unfortunately, 'Her Chuck' didn't exist anymore. He wasn't a naïve young man anymore that was sick at the thought of anyone dying especially at his own hand. She didn't like it that he could kill when someone he loved was in danger, but he was. She accepted it because he didn't relish it and he knew he never would.
He lost his train of thought when photos came up of Hector in Paris with two Persons of Interest. He would have to gather everyone together to see if anyone knew them. If no one did, then he would have to run them through facial recognition software. He hoped someone recognized them because it would be much faster to identify them.
Dining Room
Everyone had been summoned to the dining room to get an update on the case. Many of them were ready for their situation to be over with so they could leave this place. A large screen had been set up again for the meeting and it wasn't long before Frisco showed up on the screen.
"I will skip the pleasantries. We think we have a break in the case. We have some pictures of a couple that we need to identify. We think they are part of the Ring."
A picture of a man and woman elegantly dressed came up on the screen. They were sitting at a table in an outside restaurant in Paris. They were pictured with Hector.
"Oh my God!" Someone said.
"Monica?" Frisco asked. "Do you know who these two are?"
"I think I do." Monica replied. "But they are supposed to be dead. I know most of the people in this room were supposed to be dead as well but these two were frozen to death when Mikkos Cassadinewas trying to freeze the world. They are Anthony Cassadine and Alexandra Quartermaine."
"Is anyone surprised another Cassadine is involved?" Alan stated with sarcasm. Then he looked over at Monica and asked, "Alexandra is my cousin, right?"
"Yes, she is," Monica answered. "which I guess explains why you and our children were targeted. She really did hate us after we kept Edward from letting her use ELQ to add legitimacy to her diamond scheme."
"I am sure though, that it didn't take much convincing to get them to take part in this scheme." Alan commented.
"I mean," Alan continued. "Jason and Drew are twins. Faison was happy to experiment on them especially after Drew became a seal and Jason a hit man. Port Charles has provided Faison a petri dish of people to experiment on while giving other's opportunities for revenge and to gain wealth and power."
Before Monica could respond, Emma interrupted.
"Do you have any news about where Jack could be?" she asked.
"Not yet, Emma." Chuck answered as he came up beside Frisco. "I am tracking the movements of these new suspects and see if that gets us some leads. I will let you know as soon as I find out something."
"Thanks, Chuck." Emma said with disappointment. Sarah had followed her mother and just hugged her.
"I am sure Dad is fine." Sarah tried to reassure her mom and herself. "He is a survivor."
"He is also a big jerk!" Emma exclaimed and headed out of the room.
Sarah followed her mom out to go check on the kids before going to check on her husband. There were too many changes happening and she knew he was avoiding having to deal with them.
Conference Room
Sarah finally got her mother calmed down then checked on the kids. It was getting difficult to keep them occupied. She could feel the tension among everyone that was there. They had to find a solution to this situation soon or they were going to have a major problem on their hands.
When she walked into the conference room, she heard Chuck say, "My Hannah?"
"My Hannah?" Sarah repeated as she zeroed her frosty eyes toward Chuck.
"You know, Hannah that I briefly dated before we got together." Chuck looked hesitantly into Sarah's glacier eyes. Then he said defiantly, "While you were dating Shaw!"
"All right, enough you two!" Frisco yelled. "Casey has a problem. She just came into the restaurant. Should he duck out?"
"I am ducking out!" Casey told them. "I am sure that my cover here does not include my several year stint as a salesman at the Buy Moron."
"Fine," Frisco said. "I have Shawn going in as a cook tomorrow anyway. Casey, I want you to monitor the surveillance outside the restaurant. Make sure we get clear pictures of people going in and out."
"Please tell me that someone did a detailed background check on this Hannah." Frisco seethed.
"I did." Sarah told him. "But it wouldn't hurt to see what she has been up to since then. If I remember correctly, she was good with computers. She could have been recruited since then."
"Chuck," Sarah said sternly. "Let me handle this. I can do a background check and keep an eye on your other searches. Go sit with you father and then go play with the kids."
She reached down and touched his face as he continued to sit at his computer. She reached down to kiss him on the head. "You have been in this room almost constantly for a week. I promise I will text you if there is something you need to come back to handle."
She moved out of his way as he moved the chair back and left the room without speaking to her.
"He is going to be angry for a while over that." Frisco said with concern.
"I know," She sat down at the computer and began her search on Hannah. "But I want my goofy husband back. I don't think he has laughed in a month. He hasn't had any game time with Morgan or any of the kids either."
"As the leader of this operation," Frisco said to her as he sat down beside her. "I appreciate his serious professionalism. We need that right now to get all the people responsible. This is also very personal for all of us. We have family members that have been negatively affected by the Ring and to get them back and keep them safe we have to do this right."
"As a spy, I agree with you." Sarah said as she continued typing on the computer. "But I want my husband back."
Frisco jumped back as Sarah slapped her hand down on the desk. "I'm going to fly to Port Charles and beat the crap out of Shaw."
Frisco looked at the computer screen and saw a photo of Hannah with Shaw on someone's Facebook page.
"When was it posted and who's page is it on?" Frisco asked.
"Looks like it was posted about a year ago and it looks like it was someone she is friends with." Sarah answered. "I guess he has been out for at least a year. Let's decide how we proceed with this before I go talk to Chuck about this. He is going to blame himself if Shaw got her involved in this under false pretenses."
"Let's find out what her motives for getting involved with him." Frisco said as he started scrolling on his phone. "Did she meet him during the time that Chuck was dating her? It could have been some stupid pay back to you and Chuck."
"It was eight years ago." Sarah scoffed. "Who does that?"
"People that get consumed with revenge." Frisco answered. "People like Shaw."
"She didn't even know Chuck that long." Sarah said with doubt. "They only dated for a month."
"But he broke up with her because he was still in love with you." Frisco reminded her. "She could still be angry that he was trying to use her to get over you."
"That was a really messy time for us." Sarah said. "We are guessing at this point. Why don't we send Cole to question her?"
"I'll check with Casey to see if she is still at the Restaurant." Frisco told her. "Then send Cole to pick her up."
Carmicheal Private Jet
Sam and Drew had put the kids to bed in the back of the plane and went back up to the front to sit with Zondra and A.J. Drew didn't notice that while they were at the medical facility, A.J. and Zondra had struck up a friendship. Drew had been getting caught up with Chuck and Sarah as well as starting a relationship with Alan and Emily.
"Guys," Drew said to get the others attention. "What do you guys think about me inviting everybody to Mom's house and telling everyone at the same time what is going on?"
"Makes sense." A.J. said. "Most of the people to tell are at Mom's anyway."
"I almost want to tell Michael by himself though." Drew said. Addressing A.J. he asked, "Are you sure you want to go directly to Russia? Shouldn't we tell Michael you are his father before you go?"
"Is Michael back from his business trip?" A.J. asked.
"I will text him and ask if he will be home around the time we are supposed to land." Drew said. "We can tell him together before you head to Russia. That will give them time to refuel the plane and do any maintenance."
"Do you think he will be happy about it?" A.J. asked with trepidation.
"Did anyone tell you how he reacted when he found out that Sonny shot you and Carly helped cover it up?"
Ellie had been able to leave him with his memories of the time he spent as Jason, so he did remember someone telling him about it. He just couldn't remember who had told him.
"He got custody of Avery and he changed his name to Quartermaine." A.J. said but then said. "But he gave custody back and he went back to Corinthos."
"I think that was his girlfriend, Sabrina's doing more than anything." Drew told him. "She was worried how the anger and bitterness was affecting Michael and how it would affect Avery. You just have to look at the history between you, Sonny, Carly and Jason to see how toxic all that hate and anger and how it destroyed your life."
"Jason recorded those messages for Sonny and Carly with me in his room." A.J. told Drew. "He is right. We were all toxic with each other. If nothing else this last year has proved that."
"Is it really safe for you two to go to that clinic in Russia?" Sam asked A.J. and Zondra.
"I have some old CIA contacts in the area that have said that it is a legitimate health clinic." Zondra answered. "Peter told us as far as he knew they were legit. The WSB removed the doctors and other staff that were responsible for doing the plastic surgery and mind mapping on A.J."
"Still not sure I trust Peter." Sam interjected.
"Not sure I do either." Drew responded. He reached out and took her hand and kissed it.
"I am happy for Maxie." Sam told them. "She got her husband back and she will get her sister back when this is over."
Quartermaine Mansion
"Are you alright?" Drew asked Michael as they met at the front door.
"I am still in shock, I guess." Michael answered. "I don't think I believed you until you showed me the photo of you, Jason and A.J. I am glad you three are getting close. I never enjoyed the fighting especially when it was over me."
"I'm sure you didn't." Drew agreed with him. "Let's go get this over with. I'm not looking forward to telling this story again."
"Where are Danny and Scout!" Tracy immediately attacked Drew when they walked in the door. "I would like to see them and meet Scout."
"They are at home with Sam." Drew told her.
"I'll go to the penthouse to see them then." Tracy said as she turned to leave.
"They're not at the penthouse." Drew said. "Sam and the kids are at our house we have together."
"You and Sam are back together?" Tracy asked with surprise.
"Is everyone else here?" Drew asked. "That is one of the things I need to tell everyone about."
"Oscar was feeling better so him and Joss went out somewhere." Tracy told him as she followed him and Michael into the living room.
"Thanks for letting me know. I will update him later." Drew said. "Kim needs to be with us anyway."
"Drew," Tracy said to get his attention. "While we wait for Olivia and Ned, I wanted to tell you something."
"Go ahead." Drew told her. "I just need to pull up these files everyone may want to see while I explain what has been going on for the last year."
"I just want to tell you how grateful I still am for what you did for ELQ and the family." Tracy said sincerely. "If you had actually been Jason, I don't think the outcome would have been the same."
"That is actually part of what we are going to talk about." Drew told her. "This is rather shocking information."
"More shocking that you turning out to be Drew instead of Jason." Tracy scoffed. "We attributed you being a nicer person to you getting ran over and it turned out you weren't even Jason."
Before Drew could reply she went on, "Where is Monica?"
"Ok." Came a voice from the living room doorway. "What's this about?"
Drew looked over and saw Olivia and Ned coming into the room.
"Everyone please have a seat." Drew told them. "No one wants to be standing for this."
"This must be very bad." Olivia assumed.
"Not all of it." Michael told her.
"I will try to keep this as simple as I can and start at the beginning." Drew began. "Please hold your questions until I am done. There is a lot of information to get through."
"This started last May." Drew began again before anyone could comment. "Sam and I were talking about working things out and working on our communication. Sam told me she noticed some things about Jason that didn't fit, which could have been for many reasons. But we decided to test our DNA more thoroughly than the PCPD did. We decided to include Danny's as well Michael's."
"Before the DNA test came back, it was suggested to me to have some other tests run." Drew continued. "I tranquilized him, and I took him to the hospital for him to have a full body scan. It turned out he has no brain damage, but he had recovered from a broken back."
"As you have probably guessed he is A.J.," Drew sighed. "This was confirmed with the DNA test as well because it showed Michael was his son."
"Does Monica know about this and where is she?" Tracy asked adamantly.
"Where is the real Jason?" Ned asked at the same time.
"Monica and Jason are together right now." Drew answered. "There is so much more, and it gets really weird. It turns out that Faison did multiple experiments on the two of us for years. We figured it out when the DNA tests showed I was Danny's father instead of Jason."
"How reliable are these DNA tests?" Ned asked warily.
"Someone I trust from my Seal days ran the tests." Drew confirmed. "Before Sam and I could get very far in our investigation some of the people I did government work with years ago showed up. They have been helping as well as the WSB. Like I said this has turned out to be much bigger than we thought."
"Now for the truly shocking part of the story," Drew said as he looked directly at Tracy. "The WSB and my friends raided a facility and they not only found Jason. They also found Alan, Emily, Nick and Dawn."
"Dawn!" Ned said with shock. "Monica's daughter and my ex-wife?"
"When can we see them?" Tracy asked as she stood up from the couch. "I want to see my brother!"
"I can arrange a teleconference at Sam's PI office tomorrow morning." Drew told them. "I can't reveal where they are yet. Too many people know where they are already. We are closing in on the last two suspects that are involved, and everyone will be able to come home after they are caught."
"Who are these people?" Tracy demanded to know.
"The one in custody right now is Hector Alcazar, the father of Luis and Lorenzo. As it turned out, he is also Shiloh's father." Drew told them. "The other two that they are trying to locate now is Alexandria Quartermaine and Tony Cassadine."
"I thought they were dead." Tracy said with surprised. Then she said with sarcasm. "Why am I surprised. Nobody that is supposed to be dead is actually dead. I guess it would be too much to ask that Daddy and Mamma were there too"
To Drew's dismay Tracy dropped her head down into her hands and started crying. Before he could do anything, Ned reached his mother and hugged her.
"I'm sorry, Tracy." Drew said as he touched her shoulder. "When we found Alan and the others, they had completely different memories. It wasn't like how they gave me Jason's memories. They made Alan believe that Monica had died of breast cancer and Emily had been in an accident that left her in a coma. Dawn believed she was his daughter and a nurse that helped him care for Emily. Thankfully, Emily woke up yesterday with her memories intact and Alan has some of his memories back. I promise you will be able to see for yourself tomorrow when you can see and talk with them."
"I think we have all had enough for tonight." Drew said. "I need to get home to Sam and the kids. I will contact you first thing in the morning after the call has been arranged. I will contact my friend and he will take care of it."
Drew had just sent the message to Chuck about the video conference they needed to have in the morning when his phone rang.
"Joss, is Oscar alright?" Drew asked anxiously.
"I'm so sorry, Drew," Drew heard her crying. "Oscar wanted to confront Shiloh at the jail and when he was yelling at Shiloh, Oscar passed out. They are taking him out to the ambulance right now."
"I will meet the ambulance at the hospital," Drew told her as he hurried out the front door. "I will call Kim. If you have a problem riding in the ambulance with him call me back."
A/N: Hanna was played by Kristen Kreuk. I was disappointed that they didn't make her a Ring agent on the show. It just would have fit. Next chapter is already started and hope to have it finished during spring break in a couple of weeks.
