Chapter 5
(What a Tangled Web we Weave when we first set out to Deceive.)
Elizabeth and Steven entered their grandmother's house to see her on her knees with her rear in the air. "How undignified, I can't help thinking that the hospital board might not like to see this picture?" teased Elizabeth while Audrey sat back with a rueful laugh.
"Grams, is everything okay?" asked Steven.
"Yes, its fine. Elizabeth, Cam went down for a nap early because we woke up early. I think half the Port Charles police department raced down our street this morning." she said annoyed. "Just wait until I see Mac Scorpio, I intend to give him a piece of my mind."
Now that was a discussion Elizabeth could imagine. Grams lecturing him about police car lights and sirens and his shutting her up by telling what he had walked in on. "Grams, I am sure that it was for a good reason."
"It wasn't." she said glaring. "They stopped down at old batty Mrs. Peabody's. She claimed to see someone dragging a dead body into her house and placing it in her freezer."
In spite of knowing she was going to have to tell her about Jason, Elizabeth's couldn't help laughing at that one. "Did she say why they put it in her freezer?"
"According to that nutty old woman, a painted man did it and offered to let her keep him so she wouldn't starve this winter. Needless to say, the detective who investigated wasn't happy. I do have to ask Mac his name, though. Handsome young devil." she said.
"Grams, isn't he a little young for you?" she asked.
"I wasn't interested for me. Nor you." she said when she saw Elizabeth's annoyed grimace. "I was thinking of Ms. Emily. He was a Latin gent and she has seemed to have a preference for men whose ancestors were from the Mediterranean."
"Oh, her preference have changed, grams. Trust me, now she is into blonds." Elizabeth said with a knowing glance at her brother. "Right Steven?"
Audrey smiled as an idea came to her. Lila and she had once had a discussion about that. She had liked the idea, had in her mind seen Elizabeth with Jason, but that was before he became Jason Morgan. She didn't like thought of danger around her late husband's favorite grandchild.
"Grams, you said you needed to talk to me, but before you do, there is something I should tell you." Elizabeth knew she had to tell her, if she didn't Lucky or Ric would blindside her.
"Can you hold that thought, my dear." she said as she went to the kitchen then stopping at the threshold said "Steven would you please reach under the sofa and find the pen I dropped, it was your grandfather's."
Returning with the tea tray and waiting as Elizabeth had gone upstairs to check on her grandson, Audrey took the pen, then said "I was going to give this to you a few years ago, but honestly Steven, I didn't like what I saw. You were resembling your father a bit too much. I know that you have good reason, but life, it's not black or white, its many many different shades."
"I know." he said quietly. "I went to see Dad. It was awkward, but the three weeks I was there, I was listening to him and not agreeing with what he was saying. Then on the jet home, I was astonished to notice that those had been my opinions before that moment. It's why I took the Memphis job. It gave me time to think about what kind of person I want to be."
As Elizabeth joined them, Audrey reached out for both their hands. "You two, have always held my heart. I think that is why your parents sent Sarah here all those years ago and not Elizabeth. They felt like we favored you, Elizabeth over your sister. Same thing with you Steven. It might have had a grain of truth in it. Elizabeth resembles her grandfather, you Steven, gave us a chance to see what your father was like as a boy."
Looking at both of them, she said "I talked to Sarah, telling her why I am about to tell the two of you. She was fine with it, actually laughed and that she had never in spite of what Carolyn had said, felt like I favored the two of you."
"Steven, your grandfather and I have always been so proud of you. It was why I was so worried but I know that while I have been over reacting to Elizabeth's and my fight, that you have been there for her. It is what gave me hope that someday you will move home."
"Elizabeth, my beautiful warmhearted granddaughter." she said with a smile. "I have loved you from the moment we heard Carolyn was pregnant, knew from the moment you were born you were going to be a handful after you peed on your father."
Hearing a snicker, Elizabeth glared at her brother. "I know I haven't told you this often enough, but I am so proud of you. In spite of the many weights trying to hold you back, you have become a wonderful mother, an incredible nurse. But there is one thing that has disappointed me in the past few years."
Seeing Elizabeth's eyes turn cloudy, Audrey said "I regret that you had to give up your art. That was and still should be an important part of you. I hope that someday soon, you find a way to incorporate it back into your life. I am also sorry if I was in anyway responsible for you giving it up."
Swallowing hard, Elizabeth reached over and hugged Audrey. "No, you weren't responsible. I have done a bit of drawing but since having Cam I find I prefer to spend my free time with my son."
"Now as to why I needed to speak to you. Elizabeth, we discussed you moving in here but you said you didn't want to. That you feel like it would be a step backwards. I can understand that. Steven, you said that it was too big for just one person. I get that, trust me I do." she said her mind on when her husband had been alive.
"I have decided to keep it, though. It has been in your grandfather's family for five generations before me, with Cam having lived here, it is now up to eight." she said with a smile. "So, what I am going to do is set up a trust to take care of it, with both of you as signers."
"The cabin will be going to Tom, that came from his Uncle Lee and really it belongs to the Baldwin family, not me." she said. "Now my only remaining issue is my will."
"Grams, are you sick?" asked a fearful Elizabeth.
"Mercy heavens, no." she said appalled at the idea and the fear in Elizabeth's face. "Nothing like that. Edna Chandler died rather unexpectedly recently and her family had no idea of her last wishes and I would never want that. That is why I am making sure you know these things."
Seeing them relax, she said "Edna died water skiing in Cancun with her lover who was twenty years younger, I assure you I have no intentions of doing anything like that."
Steven had an image of Audrey with someone younger and that started his laughter only for his sister to pinch him. "G-grams, I am sorry."
Glaring at him, Audrey then turned to Elizabeth and said "You wanted to speak to me about something, dear."
"Great, Steven gets you angry and now I have to give you some news you aren't going to like." she said annoyed.
"Oh dear, please tell me you aren't going back to Lucky?" she asked exasperated. She had finally seen that Spencer boy for who he was and the idea that Elizabeth might have fallen back in with him, didn't sit well with her.
"NO! Why is that the first thing that people suspect? Emily asked the same thing." snarled Elizabeth. "No, I am not getting back with Lucky and after last night, I think it is safe to say that he knows that, Ric too."
"That horrible man should have figured it out when you divorced him and threw his alimony check in his face." said Audrey frowning.
"He didn't, he has been hanging around a bit, which led to what I have to tell you." she said "The last year, since Jason's memory has come back, we have been talking a bit, grams."
Not liking where this was going but keeping her promise to Elizabeth Audrey just listened. "The virus was a bit of a wakeup call for me, Grams. Then over the last few months, we have been talking more. Partly because of what is going on with Emily and partly because we were finally facing that things between us are still there. I don't know where this is going, Grams. I know that it is more than likely not a good idea, but at the same time, Grams, for both of us there are regrets at how we had a chance and never took it."
"Elizabeth, are you sure? That man hurt you worse than any other person ever has and considering the pain in your past, that is saying something." she said worried.
"I know. Jason and I have a lot more to talk about, some things that are going to raise the roof as we argue about them." she said with a sigh. "Yet, grams. Grams, last night we were at Jake's, like you know."
"I still don't get why you ladies can't unwind at someplace like the Metrocourt."
"Why would they go there, with drinks that expensive, all she would be doing is paying for the privilege of having Carly yapping in their faces."
"Oh dear, I forgot about that one." said Audrey. They had all heard that somehow Carly had ended up the co-owner of the hotel with Jasper Jacks, more than likely another notch on that nasty woman's bed post.
"Grams, we like Jake's." she said. "As I was leaving, Jason and I talked. I wouldn't be telling you the next part but both Lucky and Ric saw us."
"Is Lucky stalking you again?" fumed Audrey only to hear Elizabeth laugh.
"No, no nothing like that. Sam McCall escaped from police custody yesterday. Now, I don't know if you are aware but Jason ended things with her in February, she has been stalking him. This arrest in fact was predicated on that." said Elizabeth.
"That guttersnipe sees a rich man who will pay her bills, women like that don't go gently into the night easily." said Audrey.
"Yes, well Jason and I had been talking and we went back to the penthouse so I could see the changes he has made." she said.
"My dear, back in my day, the men asked you back to see their etchings, trust me, he knew exactly what he was doing when he asked you over." said Audrey while both of her grandchildren laughed at the tone she was using.
"Anyhow, one thing led to another and we didn't lock the door." she said blushing then with a stutter. "Ric was convinced I guess that Sam was there. Anyhow Mac Scorpio and Lucky along with two uniformed officers sort of walked in on Jason and I."
Audrey sat there for a second, no words came out then she said "Oh dear. Please tell me you were wearing something at least my dear."
Shaking her head no, certain her grams didn't want to know about the skirt bunched up at her waist or that Jason had still been attached at that moment. "Anyhow, Lucky and Ric both passed out."
That brought laughter from her brother as he loathed Ric and he didn't like any of the Spencers. "Yes, well those two men right now are more than likely out for revenge. It is how they deal with embarrassment and anger."
"Oh dear. That isn't good." said Audrey her face flushed at the idea of her poor granddaughter being seen that way. "Maybe I should stay, to help you out, Elizabeth."
"No, no, you go ahead to Arizona, Grams. Besides, they will be after Jason and not me. He made me promise to stay out of it." she said with a heavy sigh. "I agreed unless they try to drag me into things."
"Fine, but if you need me, I want you to promise to call." she said having grave misgivings. "Elizabeth, about Jason. Once a long time ago, Lila and I, well we thought that Jason Quartermaine and you would be a great couple. I am not so sure about Jason Morgan, he has taken one of the other Jason's worst characteristic and ran off making it his life's motto."
"Which one?" asked Steven when he saw Elizabeth seemed confused too.
"He feels the need to fight for those who he sees as weak or who have the whole world against him. What he doesn't see is that the reason the world is against the Corinthos family is that they are truly unpleasant people. I have met a few mobsters in my day and let me tell you. Sonny Corinthos isn't fit to sit at their feet, let along side of them at the table."
"Grams, you know mobsters?" asked Elizabeth in astonishment.
"A long time ago, my dear one of my fellow stewardesses married a man with connections as they called it back then. Serefina fell in love with a bad boy from Miami. They were happy until the day she died. I went down for the funeral."
"Her sons had followed their father's footsteps, except that eventually one joined the priesthood. I remember getting a nice letter from Javier, Sr and her when your grandfather died. In spite of his business interests, Mr. Ruiz was a very honorable man."
Steven hid his shock, the Ruiz family was one of the biggest connected family's in Florida. When he had been with the FBI, he had heard of their rather messy way of doing things, though the way their avoided families and women had always surprised the FBI.
Audrey sighed then said "Serefina's sons were in town recently, I saw one outside one day. I found a bouquet of his mother's favorite flowers on the porch. The young man looks terrifying with all his tattoos, the scars and the bald head yet he has a softness about his eyes that reminds me of his mother."
Hugging Audrey, Elizabeth raised her eyebrow at Steven as if it say do you believe what you are hearing. "Grams, why did you never tell me this before?"
"I have always been afraid that you would be so hurt in that world, it is isolating and Mr. Morgan's friends, well they aren't going to be very accepting my dear. At least Mr. Corinthos and Carly."
"Grams, I am not sure where this is going to lead, but I promise you. I will still be the same person. I have Emily and the rest of the girls in my life. I have no intention of walking away from my career and then there is Cameron. I won't do anything that would create problems for my son."
"I know that my dear." she said then looking at the clock said "Oh no, I had better head over to Gail's. Today is the Bridge tourney finals and we have to work on our strategy."
Going upstairs, Elizabeth gently woke up Cam and talked to him as she got him ready. "So what do you say, shall we go to to the park, maybe get an ice cream cone?"
"You know, using your son as an excuse to buy an ice cream cone isn't very well done, Elizabeth." said Steven who said "Can you go from the hospital entrance, I sort of need a ride."
"First you insult me, now you want a ride?" she asked in mocked disgust. "Oh okay but you have to ride in back with Cameron."
"Fine, he is better company anyhow." smarted off Steven who said "When is your new car arriving anyhow?"
With a grin, Elizabeth said "Two more days. I can't believe I managed to save up the money, then buy it outright. The only thing was they didn't have the color I wanted so I ended up with a color they are calling woodland but to me it is more like dark olive."
Emily hurried into the locker room where she saw Robin frowning at Patrick. "What is it with the two of you? I thought you were finished fighting."
"We aren't fighting." said Dr. Drake. "More like arguing over protocol regarding a patient."
"Fine, fine. Robin, we are having an emergency meeting tonight of the GNO girls and since it is for all of us, you need to be there. There have been some major developments." she said then asked her to let Lainey and Kelly know.
The man in the ornate office waited for the call, it was almost one o'clock and no one had found the body. How was that possible?
"Trevor what are you doing sitting in my father's chair. Get your lard ass out of it." said Claudia hissing as she came into the room. When the other man ignored her, she took out her gun, then threatened to shoot him.
"Now, you wouldn't do that now, would you Claudia." he drawled.
"She might not, but I sure as hell would." snarled the dark haired man as he came into the room.
"Where were you last night?" asked Claudia plaintively. "I was looking for you."
Anthony stayed silent, observing from the back of the room, well aware of his daughter's rather unhealthy interest in her brother. "Doing what I told him to do, why don't you try that some time daughter dearest."
"Daddy." she said with a sneer as she sat down on the piano bench and slipped into one of her favorite fantasies. Anthony walked over, grabbed her arm and yanked her up, disgusted with her as he dragged her to the wing-backed chair and pushed her into it.
"We sit on the proper furniture and Lansing get the hell out from behind my desk." spat out the man. Trevor moved, counting the days until he was the one in charge.
"Certainly Anthony, you seem to be feeling better." he said wishing it weren't so.
"Yes, amazing isn't it." said the older man as he looked at his daughter who was looking at her brother, then at his duplicitous attorney and finally at his petulant son. John didn't get it, he was heir, that meant he had to be molded, trained to run the business.
Anthony hadn't created this large of an empire to see it go to a manipulative bastard like Lansing or his daughter who was just like her mother. No, he was going to ensure that his son took over and he had been given the perfect weapon by one of his people.
"Lansing, I want you to attend a meeting with the families in the city, offer up my daughter in marriage." he told the attorney. When the man just sat there, he snarled loudly. "Now, get to it."
Gritting his teeth, at least happy he would be able to see his mistress, Trevor left for New York like Anthony wanted. Looking at his daughter he said "Chose wisely because if you don't. I have made arrangements with Javier for you to be married to Manny."
"There is no way you can force me to marry that idiot." said Claudia with a smirk. Manny was going to end up dead, she had arranged it herself, well with Trevor's help.
Looking at his daughter, he said "One of the New York family's, or Manny. No more screwing around with people like Corinthos, no more fucking both Trevor and his son. You are my daughter and if you don't like my rules go running back to your Uncle Rudy and the clowns he has masquerading as waiters."
"I won't leave poor Johnny with you." she said starting to head over to where John was standing against the fireplace. Rubbing his arm, she laid her head on his shoulders and said "Johnny is all that I have left."
"Claudia your ass had better be in that chair or I will have my men take you to the airport." snapped the old man. "And John, stop indulging your sister, you have no idea what she has been up to. Stop encouraging her.
"Why? She wants the business, I don't." he snapped. "It is as simple as that."
"Claudia, leave us." ordered her father. The Italian woman resisted but Anthony signaled some of his people and had them drag her out. "Sit down, now."
John sat then said "What is your problem?"
"Your sister is sick. You are feeding into her delusions. And there is something you need to see."
Turning to look at the man across the desk he saw him tossing pictures on it. "I don't know who she is, but it is clear she means something to you. Do you really want to expose her to Claudia."
Turning white, John lifted the one of them of them at the pool table, then said "What do you want?"
"That man, in the other pictures, it's Morgan right?" asked Anthony. "I want you to learn from him. Then when the time is right, you take over for me. In the meantime, I will deal with Trevor."
"Cut ties with her right now, John. Claudia is a threat." ordered the man. "To that young lady in that picture, to your sister she is the enemy,"
"Fine, but if anything happens to my friend in spite of cutting Claudia out, you will regret it. Do you understand me." he said coldly. Lifting his phone, he sent a text and then said to his father. "I want to talk to Morgan, then head out to our Casino."
Nodding, Anthony let him leave knowing that what he had done had been for the best of reasons.
Georgie meanwhile had confronted Dillon. After a long talk she got that he had been trying to find a way to end things, just like she had been. Feeling a bit better she did at least point out that sleeping with both Courtney and Lulu wasn't the way to go about it.
"Especially since Courtney is sleeping with Lucky." she tossed out as she left the blond regretting the wasted time. Meeting up with Maxie, she listened to her sister's dramatic story about the computer geek. "I think his name is Spinelli."
"Spinelli, Spumoni, who cares." she said shrugging. "Either way he is a pest. Now what happened to you?"
"Down by the docks, not here." she said then when they were on the bench she told Maxie about John and the night before.
"Five times, wow, I bet you are feeling sore this morning." said Maxie slightly enviously. "Was he any good?"
Georgie privately acknowledged that she was more aware of certain parts of her body. Johnny had left a most delicious impression from the night before, her mind couldn't help thinking that yes he had been masterful but she just said "Yes."
Across town, Stan had doubled checked on Milo for Jason, listening to his feed, he heard him telling Sonny that he had brought Stan food, that the techie was looking into Sam's arrest.
The Cuban waited until Milo had left, then once again tried to reach Max who had been doing surveillance on Lorenzo Alcazar but so far, nothing had been reported. Impatient, he considered a frontal assault by visiting the South American but was concerned that might tip his hand.
Hearing a knock on the door, then Marco let in the hot tempered woman he had been sleeping with. "Something you need to tell me?"
"Nothing." Claudia said as she stripped and soon had him busy on the sofa. When they were finished, she was curling up, when Sonny stood and walked to the window with a glass of clear liquid.
"Get dressed." he said then turned around to watch as she obeyed. "I have no use for manipulative women, Ms. Zacchara, nor for liars. Thanks for the tumble, but now I would like you to get the hell out. Tell Trevor and or Ric it isn't going to work, not this time."
Claudia saw his eyes, then the cunning buried deep within and said "I wasn't playing you."
"You still are trying but it won't work. Take a message back to your lawyer, I am not biting." with that Sonny signaled for a guard and had her taken out of his house. Deciding to spend some time with his sons, Sonny drove to where Carly was staying to pick them up.
Grateful the boys were going with her ex, Carly hurried to the hotel for the meeting that Jax had arranged between them and a high rolling coming into town.
John meanwhile made arrangements to protect Georgie then went to talk to his father's people. "I want to see all footage from last night"
Grimacing, he went to his meeting with Morgan who quickly agreed to do what he needed.
"John, are you sure about this?" he asked worried about the safety of the young girl.
"My father already knows about her, Claudia will be searching, just like she is for something on your friend Elizabeth. The safest way to protect her is to be there, to know what is going on in her life." Johnny went over his plan. "Its going to take time, which I don't have but for now, I need to deal with Trevor first."
"What about this marriage, will you father really force Claudia into marriage?" he asked not so sure how he felt about that in spite of what he had heard about the woman.
"Yeah, but I am more concerned about who they killed." he said quietly. "Are any of your people missing?"
"No, not that I know of." Said Jason as they separated. Making a few calls, he grimaced when he heard that no one had seen Alcazar's second-in-command. Hurrying out to see Sonny, Jason waited until the guards had left before leading his boss where he wanted them to go.
"While you are dealing with Sam, I will take care of that." said the man confidently. "Have you heard from her, yet?"
"No, she escaped last night and no one has seen her since. The guards said they saw her coming into the Towers but she never made it to my place. Ric and the cops had a search warrant but thanks to Elizabeth warning me about Ric's bugs we were able to distract them."
Sonny hid his frown at that name, he didn't like where this was going. He still found himself feeling guilty for his part in Elizabeth and Jason ending but at the same time he knew she was not someone who could live in their world. She was simply too kind of a person to survive. "Jason, just don't led her on, Elizabeth doesn't deserve that."
"I have no intention of letting Elizabeth get hurt." In fact as soon as Sam was taken care of, Jason had every intention of making sure that Sonny and Carly learned to stay out of his personal life and that he was not going to lose Elizabeth again, no matter what.
Sonny watched him leave, then went to deal with making sure that there was no way to connect them to the mess. Hearing the report he then called Max. Getting his voice mail, Sonny frowned and called Milo who said his brother had left a message.
"He said he was chasing down a lead regarding what is going on with the Zaccharas."
Stan took a deep breath of relief as his bug picked up Milo passing on the message like they wanted. Checking the time, then calling the men Jason had on Sam, he called his boss. "The geek, we have him. Do you want to have the men pick him up."
"Where is he?" Jason asked while watching from a distance as Elizabeth joked around with his sister and Maxie Jones who was telling them something. Grimacing at the answer he said "Why did he run, did he know..."
Hearing the story about Maxie and the geek, he said "Where do you think he will flee to?"
"I have no idea, I will keep looking but if we can get the police to rerun the evidence, I took care of the program he wrote that directed them towards Sam." said Stan. "Uh, Jason, you should know, Sam is now muttering threats against Carly, Courtney, and Ric for some reason."
"Up the guards for the boys and Carly. Courtney always ducks them, so let her be, besides from what you told me she has bigger worries with having sex with Cassadine's brother and Dillon." he replied then hanging up went over to the apartment building. Frowning to find that Emily wasn't home, he was debating the risk of knocking on Elizabeth's door when a delivery man came and knocked on the door.
Out of sight, Jason listened as her brother paid for the pizza while on the phone to someone. "Yes, I am babysitting so it will have to be tomorrow Drake."
Curious as to where Elizabeth was, Jason drove towards GH. Crossing the parking lot, he saw Sonny's sister arguing with a red head. Staying out of her line of sight, he unfortunately eavesdropped as she insulted the other woman he learned was married to his sister's ex.
"You know, Nik warned me about you." said the other woman. "Look, Courtney, I know your whole history. Married to one brother, lusting after the other. Stripping to get his attention after he saved you from being mugged. I know about how you befriended Elizabeth Webber, then lied to her while chasing after the man you knew she was in love with."
"That is none of your business." Snapped the blond annoyed. "Besides, Jason didn't love Elizabeth, he told me so, so there."
"So there? What are we? Ten!" sneered the Irish woman. "Then lets see, you jumped off a ship, supposedly pregnant. My guess, the old holes in the condom trick to keep your man on a leash."
"He didn't know I was pregnant." she muttered.
"Yeah, I would bet something happened, something ruined your plans. I know about the kidnapping on your wedding day. Let me guess, it was going to go something like this on your honeymoon. Oh honey, it's a miracle, guess what I am pregnant. Look, I know everything, Helena, Nik's grandmother tried to use the report she ran on you to warn me off."
Jason stopped, still out of sight, blinking when he heard the tone Courtney was using. The two women traded barbs back and forth, as the blond accidentally admitted to getting pregnant on purpose while taunting the other woman.
"You just wait, you think you are so smart. You haven't met them. They are like leeches. Elizabeth with my ex-husband, she just never seems to get the message that men aren't really interested in her, only in what she can do for them. Then there is Emily. Just you wait, she will be there, always be there, always around, like a shadow that won't go away."
"Courtney, want to know the difference between you and I?" asked Siobhan. With a smirk she continued on. "You will lie, cheat, steal and manipulate to get what you want, me, I don't have to do that. I was honest with Nik about my attraction. It's why in the end, we married. Oh and Court... a teenage boy, seriously?"
"It was a one time thing, I was feeling... wait, I don't have to explain myself to you." retorted the blond as she left the hospital glaring at the other woman who embraced Nicolas.
"I was hoping to tell Emily but she is gone for the day." he said frustrated. "She is going to be blindsided and I hate that this is going to hurt her."
"What about going to her parents place?" asked his wife practically.
"No, she doesn't live there. I heard one of the nurses talking, Elizabeth and Robin were making plans for some sort of meeting tonight." he said. Holding his wife's hand as they left, he was explaining who Robin was while Jason went back to his truck.
Calling Jake's, he was told the women weren't there when someone came up behind him. "Morgan, you have a problem."
Glaring at Manny, he was irate when the other man handed him a wallet. Opening it, he swore when he saw it was Max's. "What is going on?"
"The Zaccharas took out Alcazar's second in command. This was found near the body on Maple." Jason stiffened then looked at Manny who gave a crazed grin. "Yeah, you need to face things, amigo. Your secret child, the bambino isn't so secret as you might expect."
"How?" asked Jason his skin white. "No, one, I mean, no one knows."
""I know, my family knows. Alcazar doesn't so this was a shot across the bow." said the other man. "Met me at the Overlook."
Driving out to the bridge, Jason's mind was racing, someone somewhere knew what he had been trying to keep quiet for almost two years. How was that possible?
"Explain." he said tersely once they were alone.
"Mike Corbin witnessed you together with Elizabeth. He was drunk at the time, still hasn't put two and two together to get that you are Cameron's father. However he pissed and moaned about it to someone who could do some simple mathematics."
"Who? Who knows?" asked Jason, the answer flooring him. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah, Spencer bitched about it when his son was making plans to marry Miss Webber, said that he wouldn't have put it past you to alter the tests. There are offers out there, for any information about the Spencer family, rumors are someone knows, that someone has DNA proof."
Jason nodded at the other man and left, cursing both Sonny's father and Luke Spencer. He was driving back to the warehouse when he saw the lights on the Haunted Star were lit. Deciding to have a word with Luke, instead he backed down the ramp knowing Tracy was going to explode.
Lulu Spencer was pregnant and Dillon was the father. From the sounds of it, Luke was drunk and Jason wanted the man sober so that when he threatened him, the man would know he meant business.
The women were gathered on the floor in Lainey and Kelly's apartment, all looking at one another then Elizabeth tossed out. "Jason Morgan and I slept together yesterday."
Maxie was crowing how Georgie owed her a hundred bucks when she heard the rest. "Wait! My dad saw you? EEEWWWWWW!"
"Are you worried about Ric and Lucky retaliating against Jason?" asked Lainey as she watched Elizabeth's frown.
"Yes, I, we think Lucky is using drugs." she tossed out there.
"Oh, I couldn't do much about my problems, but I did do something about that." said Georgie. "I accessed the list of officers to be drug tested this month, added him to the list. I was still there when Lucky had to pee in a container for the Sergeant."
"Ric is my biggest worry." she admitted. "Lucky screws up everything he does, Ric's plans tend to have deadly consequences and toss a wild card like Sam escaping jail into the mix and I am scared."
"Maybe when the eleven o'clock news comes on, we will hear she was captured." said Kelly. "Regarding Lansing, I thought he was married to Alexis Davis."
"He is but he has been hanging around Elizabeth a lot. He is a slimy toad stool." snorted Maxie.
"Well we can take a wait and see approach, if I have to, I might have something on him." said Kelly her mind on the Mayor and how he owed her one.
Maxie then told them about being kidnapped and how she had knocked the man out with his own laptop. "What worries me is I don't think he is going to leave me alone."
"No, that is why I went to the station today." said a smug Georgie looking at her sister. "Damien Spinelli will no longer be a threat. He is even as we speak being transported back to the mental hospital where he escaped from in Oakfield Tennessee. Lainey, I was hoping you could call them, talk to his doctors."
"I will give them a call in the morning." she said grimly. "So Robin how did it go with Doctor Feelgood last night?"
"Well I felt fine this morning." she said with a slight blush. "But since he slept on the sofa, it was a rather uninteresting night."
"What?" groaned the women.
"No, no we talked, cleared the air so to speak. We are going out on a date, then we are going to take it slow. Unlike Emily there who moved at lightning speed." she tossed the resident to the lions.
"It wasn't like that. I found Steven attractive before but thought he was a bit of a pompous bore. Yet, the last couple of months, between the flowers he sent to Elizabeth, then my guard being down... it just happened." she finished lamely.
"Will it be happening again?" asked Maxie teasing the women next to her.
"It might. We uh, we are taking a step back, going to go the dating route but it will be long distance until he wraps up his assignment in Memphis." she added. "Which might be good, because last night then again this morning. I forgot he was Elizabeth's brother."
Georgie said "He certainly looks a lot better than when I was younger, but then it could just be me maturing. He looks like he works out a bit."
"He does." said Emily with a lustful sigh.
"So, all I want to know, is the good doctor kinky, because he looks a little too good to be true, there has to be something wrong. You know, does he like to tie you up, spanking you, or to blind-"
"Kelly, that is MY BROTHER you are talking about." said Elizabeth turning a bit green then white when she saw Emily's skin turning red. "No, just tell me that-"
Emily laughed then said "No, nothing like that, but... okay... sorry Elizabeth, but I need to talk to someone about this... uh... he likes to watch."
Blinking a bit, Maxie said "Watch what? Other people having sex, that can't be such a big thing, I mean look at all the porno out there."
"No!" said Emily who saw Elizabeth's face and said "When I came, he was watching, it was kind of intimate, if you know what I mean. Like I had no place to hide."
Kelly shivered as she got what the other woman was saying. Emily added "It was erotic, he was staring into my eyes, he wouldn't let me close them, I uh, damn, it was hot."
"Brother, need I remind you, that you are talking about the man who when he was teenager pulled my pigtails? The man who once ate a pie with his hands tied behind his back for charity."
"Speaking of that was he any good at ea-" Kelly found herself on the receiving end of a hard pillow swat. "Hey, inquiring minds want to know?"
"Emily if you answer that I will make Carly Cameron's godmother." she threatened to the amusement of her best friend.
"I won't, don't worry. Kelly if you want that kind of knowledge, you will have to find out first hand and let me remind you. I outweigh you and would have no problems tossing you off the hospital roof if you were to try and find out." she added.
Georgie stood, walked to the window then said "I have something to tell you all but Maxie, you can't tell dad. He is going to have a cow."
"Georgie, Maxie told me about Johnny." Robin said sympathetically.
"That's not it." she said uneasily. "Well it is partly, its why I ended up meeting him, and I guess partly why I slept with him last night. I uh, I was looking into how expensive my schooling is going to be if I were to go to Italy my junior year. I found a way to pay for it."
"Unless it involves being a rich man's mistress, robbing banks or selling police secret's to the mob, I don't think dad will care." said Maxie. "I mean, after raising me, I think he is immune to being shocked."
"No rich man's mistress, though I am not ending my relationship with John. I was thinking about it today. I don't know where things are going, but I want to find out. As for robbing banks, that is old school. The bankers are the thieves now a days. And no, I am not giving police secrets to the mob." she said frowning at Maxie.
Then with a deep breath she said "I am Sophia le Couer."
There was silence as the women looked at Georgie like she was insane, then Robin said "Who is Sophia le Couer and why are you claiming to be her?"
"Not claiming to be, I am her." she said patiently. "Sophie is a writer."
"You mean like the food critic or a gossip columnist?" asked Maxie.
"No I mean like a three times NY Times best selling author." she bluntly announced as she continued. "It started as a joke, Stan was at the hospital when I was a hurt last year. Carly pissed us off and we had this fantasy idea of how to get revenge... then he sort of sent it to a publisher. We created Sophie to hide who I am."
"So you write murder mysteries?" asked Emily with quite a bit of interest. "Because if you are looking for ways of killing Carly off, look no further than the women in this room."
Georgie took a deep breath then said "No, I don't write murder mysteries I write romance novels."
"How does that get revenge against Carly?" asked Robin confused while Elizabeth reached for her purse, then pulled out the paperback inside. She had seen it still on her kitchen table and with Steven staying with her, had tucked it into her purse so he wouldn't see it.
Holding it up, she said "Edmond, Edmond and Josephine. I thought that name sounded familiar. You wrote this?"
"Yes and I am so sorry Elizabeth. I probably should have asked you first, but at the time it seemed harmless." she said weakly.
"Ask Elizabeth what?" Robin suddenly looked between the book's rather lurid cover and her friend. "Oh my god... Elizabeth is Josephine."
"Yes." she said quietly. "And Edmond... well... uh... Jason is Edmond."
Elizabeth felt the book slip out of her hand as what Georgie was saying hit her. Then looking between the book on the floor, then the women in the room, then finally at the book again.
"Georgie where did you get the knowledge to write those love scenes?" she snapped at the younger woman. "I mean it was as if they were... oh my god... oh my god... who else knows? Wait, why am I so worried? You did write a book of fiction, right?"
The other ladies watched as Elizabeth had a mental meltdown as she paced back and forth in front of them as she unknowingly confessed to having placed Jason and her in the leads as she had read the book. When she whirled and stared, Georgie braced to be slapped.
"Wait, Georgie, if we were the leads, I mean.. I don't get how this would upset Carly... well other than the obvious bit of her obsession with Jason."
Georgie looked at Elizabeth and said "The trailer trash social climbing ex hooker, well that was based on Carly and Sam."
Suddenly laughing the nurse said "Oh my god, Georgie! That is too funny. But wait, why would you write the baby as Edmond's? Wouldn't it be more angst for him not to be?"
Blinking, then looking at the other women and deciding that it was time to talk privately said "Can we talk about this just as the two of us?"
"Sure, but what is the big deal?" asked Elizabeth confused. "Why are you so serious?"
"Georgie, what is going on?" asked Emily frowning a bit. Then seeing the fear in her eyes, said with a slightly amused tone. "It's like you think Jason is Cam's father."
"Isn't he?" she asked Elizabeth quietly. "I know you didn't sleep with Zander, I know that Ric isn't the father from when you had Cam tests regarding Alexis' daughter."
"Georgie, until the other night, Jason and I hadn't slept together." she said quietly. "Trust me, I wouldn't forget sleeping with him."
The younger girl looked at her in shock then said "Wait, you don't remember sleeping with Jason in one of the rooms over the diner? Back when Emily was sick?"
"No, Georgie, you are wrong. You have to be." insisted Elizabeth. "And even if I forgot, though I have no idea how, Jason wouldn't have."
"Elizabeth, I almost walked in on the two of you." she said "I left quickly when I realized what was going on. I just thought that... all this time... all this time I thought you two were keeping it quiet for some reason."
"No, Georgie, Cam is Zander's son." she said.
"I wouldn't be so sure. Look, between the photos that show him looking like Mr. Doctor Quartermaine and the records, plus knowing you slept together I really think something is off."
"Georgie, while I wish it were true, there is no way my brother wouldn't remember." said Emily confidently "and one thing I know for sure. My brother would have been ecstatic to find Elizabeth was pregnant with his child, it would have given him the chance to walk away from the mess his life was."
"She's right Georgie." said Robin. "With weeks of returning home, no matter the words he was saying, Jason's eyes have always followed Elizabeth. He would have jumped at the chance to have his dream family with her."
Maxie hesitated then told them. "I don't know if any of you were aware that I spent some time with Zander, but when he was losing it, he admitted to me that he couldn't have been your son's father. I thought you lied, to keep Ric away."
Lainey saw the sureness in Georgie's eyes and the equally positive reactions in the other woman's eyes. "I have an idea. Why don't we ruin a DNA test? We can just keep it between the six of us, because I doubt Georgie pulled this idea out of thin air."
"Fine, I will ask Jason for a sample." said Emily.
"No, we do this quietly." said Elizabeth wincing. "I don't want to bother him with this, I mean I would feel foolish when I know we didn't sleep together, I have no idea who Georgie heard."
"Georgie, what about Johnny Zacchara, shouldn't we be dealing with that problem" asked Elizabeth trying to turn the attention away from her life.
"John and I need to talk." she said firmly. "Then I will try and figure this out."
The uneasy sextet broke up, Elizabeth returning to her apartment with Lainey who after Steven had left took the little boy's hairbrush while Emily went to Jason's penthouse. Being told he wasn't there by Stan, she asked to use his bathroom.
Grabbing his toothbrush and putting out a new one, glad he was predicable and always bought blue ones, she hurried to met her friend at the hospital.
Kelly took the two samples down, then said "I had them put a rush on it. We should know the results by next week."
"Good, hopefully it will ease Georgie's mind, because we all know there is no way my brother would walk away from a life with Elizabeth." she said assuredly.
Up at Vista Point, John was meeting with his people while the woman with the binoculars was watching, her mouth twisted in anger at what her brother seemed to be doing.
Calling Trevor she asked "Has it been dealt with?"
"It's done." he said then went to call on his mistress. Kate let him in and offered him a glass of wine while he timed it. Within the hour, the news was running live feed from Port Charles discussing how escaped prisoner Sam McCall was wanted for the shooting of DA Ric Lansing, son of esteemed New York City lawyer Trevor.
TBC