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Chapter One

Just as Jason walked off the elevator, he turned to when he heard his father talking to Elizabeth Webber. Moving closer, he listened in as he gave her the news. "I am so sorry, I thought you knew."

Seeing how embarrassed she was, Jason waited until Alan had left before approaching his friend. "Hey, what is it?"

Elizabeth just shrugged the hand resting on her shoulder off, while she had been away, she had come to realize a few things and this only had confirmed what she had already known. "Nothing, excuse me, but I have to head home."

"Elizabeth?" he asked softly then stepped back to let her pass when he saw the tears in her eyes and knew she was barely holding it together. "Hey..."

"Nothing, Jason. There is nothing you can do." she snapped finally tired of his trying to be nice. She wasn't in the mood for nice and while they had supposedly made peace with all that had happened in the past, well not really but they were back to saying hello when they saw one another.

Letting her go, Jason was going to just walk away and made plans to see her after work when he heard his father talking to someone on the phone. "Elizabeth didn't know, I was offering her my condolences and she didn't know..."

Jason could hear the regret in his father's voice and slipped off to wait for the man. He had to know what was going on with his... well he didn't know how to describe Elizabeth... the truth was, when he tried, there was an ache in his heart.

Hearing his name being called, he turned to Sonny who was practically running towards him. "What is it?"

"Sam has an appointment today. I need you to get the results, so I can find out if I am the father." Sonny had just reconciled with Carly and really didn't need this to be true but Sam had shown up at his office and told him she thought she was pregnant.

Nodding, Jason walked away and sat down in Alan's office. When the man returned, he said awkwardly "I heard you talking earlier. Why were you giving Elizabeth Webber your condolences?"

"Why?" asked Alan a bit testy with his son. "Why don't you leave the poor girl alone, she doesn't need to be sucked back into the insanity that is your life."

"Look, I was just worried... she made it clear she doesn't want anything to do with me," he said not adding that that had hurt a bit. Their past still haunted him because she was the only reason he ever thought what if... what if...

"Jeff died." Seeing his confusion, Alan said dryly "Her father, was buried two weeks ago. For some reason, no one thought to inform Elizabeth."

"Where is Audrey?" asked the enforcer. He winced inwardly that he hadn't known Elizabeth's father's name, yet knew so much else about her.

"On a trip, she left the day Elizabeth came back from Napa. From the sound of it, she doesn't know either," he said then when Jason had left went to make another call. Listening to his daughter complaining about Nik, he just sighed and said: "Give him some time, Emily..."

Jason got the proof that Sam's kid was created during the time she was sleeping with Sonny, he was not happy to overhear Jasper Jacks ask if it was his kid. Swearing he called Sonny and gave him the news. "Sam slept with Jax the night of the fire?"

"Yeah, apparently so," he replied before heading out. Stopping off at the warehouse, he overheard two of his men talking and almost snapped Max's head off when the guard agreed with them.

Heading to his office, Jason tossed down his keys and sat there, brooding as he tried to figure out what had him so off balance. He knew the men were right and that he was overreacting to everything but they were wrong about the reason. He was actually relieved to have gotten his divorce papers. It gave him peace to know that part of the mistakes he had been making was rectified.

Grabbing the keys to his bike, needing to ride off some of his frustrations, he saw the lights on in Elizabeth's studio and started to go and see what he could do but instead sat there on the bench for what felt like forever. Just as he was about to just head back to his place, he saw a man standing near the entrance to the studios and then checking a piece of paper.

When the blond entered, Jason was a bit worried about Elizabeth then really worried when he saw the out of state tags on the vehicle parked in front of the building with the baby seat inside.

Moving in, he hurried up the stairs and slid into the shadows when he saw the man carrying Elizabeth's newborn son out and then saw Elizabeth hug him saying "Thank you, Steven. I just have to talk to Dr. Collins and deal with this."

"I know that when you are ready... I wish I could help... but my own life is equally a mess." said the man who hugged her yet again before leaving. When the door didn't close all the way, Jason went to say something only to hear Elizabeth talking to yet another man, one he hadn't seen arrive.

"Thank you for waiting."

"No problem. How are you doing?"

"Angry, with my family... hurt and yet not surprised. I thought I had come to grips with this, with the way I always end up being the one left behind... I mean like we talked about... I am never first, and never had been."

"Elizabeth, your family issues shouldn't influence your entire life." said the man while Jason who had been planning on leaving was a bit pissed and stuck around when the person on the phone said "We talked about this, you have let your family's lack of openness influence your other relationships. First with Lucky then with Jason Morgan. Finally, with the mess, you found yourself in with Zander and Ric."

"I know, it's just I knew Lucky was selfish, some part of me always knew. I think that I had accepted I would never be first with him, with his family... I had resigned myself to that. Then Jason came along."

"And broke your heart." said Kevin.

"He was the first person that let me be me, that encouraged me to fight to be first then when I had the courage to do so, he was the person that let me down the worst. Not that I wasn't at fault. I just blindly trusted him, never realizing that what I thought was love was only well... friendship on his part. I just wish he had told me... I think the reason it hurt so badly was he lied to me, told me he would try then..."

"Then didn't." said the man. "Have you considered talking to him about this?"

"No, because I am at a good place with myself with Cameron... I just can't deal with the hurt because deep down, Jason is the one..."

"The one..." asked the doctor.

"I am not sure," she said bleakly. "Lucky, Ric and Zander, they hurt me but deep down, I almost expected it from them. It's why I was able to care for Ric and Lucky. I knew they were deeply flawed but Jason, to me he hung the moon. To learn he didn't love me, that I was just an obligation... then when he came to me that day; after Courtney blinded me and I fell back into old patterns and agreed to forgive someone that I loathed for him, for his sake... when I was possibly permanently blind... and he walked away without a word like he did... I just can't let myself get sucked back into his world..."

"But yet you said you are friendly with him..." said Kevin.

"Like with Lucky and Ric, mainly out of memories of the past... some part of me will always wonder what if... but yet I know that in the end, I am unimportant to him. That I never cross his mind unless I am right in front of him...

The man outside sat down against the wall stunned as he listened to Elizabeth talk about their past. "When he fought with Sonny walked away from the business for Courtney, that is when I knew... that our whole well I guess relationship isn't the right word. I knew that he truly loved her and that if he fell that fast well... I wasn't ever in the running. I thought I had gotten past it, then when I heard what Sonny was saying the other day... that Jason even considered doing that... I knew..."

"Are you ever going to tell me what you overheard... you know I won't write it down and no one else will ever learn what you tell me, we have discussed this Elizabeth. And I think you need to talk about this..."

"I know, I do know, but it hurts so bad just thinking about it in my head, that to say it out loud... will make it worse for me," she said quietly then taking a deep breath then another just blurted it out. "When Ric... when Ric had Carly, Sonny ordered Jason to grab me, to threaten to kill me... I can't believe that someone I loved... that someone I trusted so much could do that... that I was so blinded by Jason and the friendship that I at least thought we had... that is what I can't get past."

There was silence as the man on the phone sat there trying to find something to say while the man in the hall was stunned at the pain he could hear in Elizabeth's heart and the matching hurt in his own. When Elizabeth started talking again, the man outside stood on shaking knees as he got how far apart things were between them...

"Dr. Collins, can we finish this up later, right now, I need to get away. I can't deal with discussing yet another person who has tossed me away... I can't go back to the nothingness I was feeling. I won't, I have Cameron to take care of. As for Jason, I will just keep out of his way and he will go right back to forgetting about me. It's what he does best." she said in a bitter tone as she hit the end button on her phone.

Jason ducked into the bathroom when he heard the door opening to the studio then saw through the crack as Elizabeth hurried down the stairs. The mobster stood there for a second, his heart torn as he finally realized why things in his life were so off balance. Because in his life, the bad was offset by the very little good and most of that was wrapped up in a woman that seemed to actually believe he would kill her.

Letting himself into the studio, he looked around and saw the homey little touches she had given the small space and then saw the baby blanket on the back of the sofa. Lifting it, he rubbed it against his face, thinking about how soft and sweet smelling it was and how Elizabeth had a son, a little child that she would bring up to be as sweet and innocent as she was...

Walking around, not really understanding any of the paintings, he saw one that looked vaguely familiar and lifted it. Realizing that she still had it, then slipping it back into the middle of the what looked to be a bunch of half-finished ones, he walked to the door and then back to the sofa, placing the blue blanket back where he found it before heading out.

Elizabeth let herself into her grandmother's house and saw Steven laying down Cameron. "Did you hold him this entire time?"

"Yeah. He is so peaceful. Are you sure he is your son?" drawled Steven then pulling his sister into his arms said, "I can't believe she didn't tell us."

"Who knows what Carolyn is thinking." she said then added, "The main reason I am not so upset is that at least I wasn't the only one she didn't tell."

"Grams is going to be so mad when she returns from her cruise." said Steven who then looked at her more closely "Are you sure you are okay?"

With a sad laugh, she hugged him and said "Shouldn't I be asking you that. Between your marriage ending, your daughter dying and now dad, I think you have it much worse than I do."

"No, I think at this point I am numb," he said with a sad sigh. "I keep going back to that moment, when Lisa and I were arguing, I should have never let her leave my house angry. I knew better. Then when she threw the car in reverse and put it into the garage... I can't look at that house, I can't even stand to see one similar." he said with a bitter laugh. "I wish I had kept my mouth shut, at least Diana would still be alive."

Hugging her brother, then listening to him talking about starting work at GH, she gave him the news she had been given before their worlds had been rocked by news about their father.

"Dr. Quartermaine said as soon as my practical training is done, I will be more than welcome to start working full-time at the hospital," she said with a grin. "I was going to call Emily but..."

"She is still trying to work this mess out with her fiancee," replied Steven. "If he walked away, why is she fighting this so hard."

"Because Emily still wants the four musketeers," she said sitting down at the breakfast bar and preparing a cup of tea. "I get it, I really do, I just don't know that she is going to get her wish. And if she keeps pushing Nik, he might run away even more."

Jason arrived home just as Carly was letting herself into his penthouse. "Carly, what is it?"

"Look, you really need to think about this... you are scaring everyone with this attitude. Maybe if you talk to Courtney, and I mean really talk to her, try and explain your side of things... she didn't last with that cop and Jason, if you don't do something she is going to be dating Jax... not that he is any real competition for you."

Carly saw Jason walk over and was shocked when he poured himself a shot before turning and standing there staring at her without saying a word. "Jase, what is it?"

"When Elizabeth walked out, you were saying the very next day that if she walked, she couldn't handle my life, that she wasn't worth it, but yet when Courtney does the exact same thing you have been bothering me for weeks now months to chase after her. Why is that?"

"Jason, you didn't love Elizabeth. And you do love Courtney, that is the difference. I hate to see you sad." she said while inwardly snarling at even the name Elizabeth then smirking as she realized she should bring it up to Courtney, that would get her running back to Jason quickly enough.

"How do you know I don't love Elizabeth?" he asked rather curious as to why she would think he loved Courtney yet not the woman who had consumed him for years until she walked away, hurt at what she saw as his lack of trust.

"Jason, because you knew I didn't like her. I mean, Jason, think about it. Sonny, you and I are a team, and Elizabeth just didn't fit with us. I mean, why would you love someone I hated?" she asked with a smile.

Jason listened and thought about what she was saying and realized how his life had gotten so screwed up, Johnny had been correct before he had left town. He had told Jason he had turned into a yes man for Sonny and Carly and was no longer the man he had known. Tuning in to hear Carly still talking, he struggled not to give in to the urge to tell her the truth about a lot of things...

"That isn't how it works. Besides, Courtney told me that you said you didn't love her and I was there the day she told Elizabeth that. If you had told her that you loved her, she would have protested that statement."

Jason just told her to go home and said as she left "Carly, someday we need to talk, not today but that day is coming soon. And when we do, I don't think you are going to like what I have to say."

With that, he shut the door and looked around the place where he slept. Seeing all the crap that Courtney had cluttered his penthouse up with, he called down to the desk and had the guard bring him up some boxes. Soon sticking the stuff in them and thinking about the past few years, Jason realized exactly what he had done and what Elizabeth had done.

Both of them had lost themselves in mistakes and in the day to day living of other peoples lives. When he was finished with the living room then the kitchen, Jason called down and had the guard haul the stuff away.

"Sir where to?"

"The trash," he said blinking at them even asking the question. Heading upstairs with yet, even more, boxes, Jason started to pack up the rest of the stuff then realized that the whole bedroom had to go. Grimacing as he finished the boxes, he had them taken out before heading to sleep in the bedroom he kept ready for Brenda not that she would ever return.

As he lay in the bed, he found his mind once again drifting to the past and knew that he had to fix things between Elizabeth and he. Even if the rift was too wide, he had to try because the one thing Jason knew was that Elizabeth Webber was a part of his soul and he had lost himself for the last few years but no more.

The next day, Jason listened to Sonny's idea and sat there staring at the man. "It won't work, Sonny. Do you really think this woman who is in love with you is going to walk away, give birth then let you raise her child with Carly the woman you went back to after telling her it was over?"

"Oh yeah, I do," he said with a slight smirk. "Besides, like I told her, even if it turns out to be mine, I am not going to blow my marriage to the woman I love for her. That no one hurts my wife, my family and gets away with it."

"What exactly did you say to her, Sonny?" he asked a bit annoyed with his partner as he listened to what he had told this woman. Jason couldn't stand the dark haired woman, but even he was shocked at what was said.

"Are you... Sonny, I really think we need to have a long talk. Contrary to what you seemed to have thought at the time, there was NO WAY IN HELL, I was going to let you hurt Elizabeth. I had no intention, none of doing what you wanted." he stated coldly then looking at his boss said in a snide tone. "You wanted to grab Elizabeth because you felt like you owned your mother Adella not to hurt your half-brother, what about what you owned Elizabeth..."

"Like I told her, I repaid any debt I felt she was owed when I hid her from Helena Cassadine." he snapped. " She was just my brother's wife to me. Nothing more and right then, she was disposable."

Looking at Sonny in shock, Jason said: "Not to me, she wasn't."

"You were with my sister, you loved her, don't you think you owed Carly and Courtney to bring my wife home." Sonny knew he had to make Jason face the truth, because if it wasn't, then he didn't know what to think.

"No," he said then added. "I would have grabbed Ric but I would have NEVER, EVER TOUCHED ELIZABETH. That you still seem to think Ric's life is more important than hers, maybe we need to reconsider this partnership."

Walking to the door, he looked at Sonny then said out loud for the first time. "We both know, even if Carly and you don't want to face it. I was reeling with the ending of my relationship with Elizabeth."

"What relationship?" sneered Sonny angry at the way Jason seemed to be calling him out over nothing.

"See, that tells me all I needed to know. I loved her, Sonny. Part of me always will, she is my Brenda, Sonny." He saw his bosses' eyes widen. "The woman I would die for, but I know and knew even then she was way better than this world than me. And I think you knew this, why else would you push things like you do, I am out of here."

Hopping on his bike, Jason returned to his penthouse then called on Emily and his grandmother Lila. "Emily, I need a favor."

"Sure," she said sitting there, slightly heartbroken after another fruitless visit with Nik who still didn't know her. She had seen him talking to Elizabeth and had been angry her friend wouldn't help her, but her grandmother had made her see reason... it just hurt, after all the help she had given Elizabeth back when Lucky returned from the dead, for her not to help like that.

Lila had pointed out that maybe by not helping, Elizabeth was indeed helping them. It was convoluted but Emily has really listened and was now in a waiting game and needing something to keep her occupied.

Listening to his request, she smiled in excitement then said: "Jason, I really don't know a lot about color and that sort of stuff."

"Emily, I just don't want it to look like it does now, badly decorated by unskilled hands and cluttered with a lot of crap. All I ask is that my pool table stays. And I guess the room for Brenda." he muttered at the end to her amusement. "Here."

Taking the huge roll of money and the credit cards, she asked: "Where are you going to be?"

"Out of town, if asked, you think it was on business." he warned her then hugging her watched as she left.

"Jason, my dear, what is really going on?" asked Lila with her bright blue eyes penetrating his mask. "Oh dear, if you really are still in love with her, fight for her, Jason."

Sitting on the ground, in front of her wheelchair, Jason confessed everything that was going on, to his shock, his grandmother just listened to him talk, in spite of clearly wanting to say something to him. "Oh my poor, poor boy, really both of you screwed up. What are you going to do?"

"Take back my life, remind Sonny that I am his partner, not his flunky and at least make sure she knows the truth. It's all I have left," he said morosely. "I just don't know why it took so long for me to figure it out."

"Because sometimes the noise that is our day to day life, overwhelms our hearts. For you, it is worse because of your job and honestly the people who surround you," she said with sad knowing smile.

"That is why I am taking off, I want everyone to think I am away but I am going to just head up this place I know, I need the time, the time to work this out," he said softly.

AT GH, Courtney saw Elizabeth Webber wearing the Pepto Bismol pink nursing scrubs and wanted to make a snide remark but she didn't dare. She was finally going to get what she always wanted, she had gotten the money, thanks to her relationship with Carly, she had the power but now, she was going to get the respect she so richly deserved.

"Ms. Matthews?" Turning, she saw the old bag waiting for her and said with a phony smile "Yes?"

"I am afraid that your situation isn't acceptable. Mr. Sanchez was removed from your care this morning and I have notified the state that you are not to be given another foster child until this situation is rectified."

"I told you, things were working out just fine." she stated with gritted teeth.

"Where you live is not a suitable situation for a teenage boy, Ms. Matthews. I have placed Diego with another family. While I can understand how with your sudden wealth wanting to do good, might I recommend a slightly smaller scale. Something more appropriate to your education level and skill. Like maybe helping out at a soup kitchen."

"But I don't like to cook." she protested.

"They do need servers and from what I read of your well very inflated resume, the only jobs you have ever held are as a waitress and a hostess and though it isn't on there, I was told you worked in a strip club. Something that should have been disclosed to us before applying as a foster mother."

Courtney stormed past Elizabeth at the hub who was talking to her training nurse then came back and glared at the brunette. "I bet you loved that, didn't you. Well, guess what, I am not giving up, I will get what I want, no matter what you tell people."

"Okay, good luck, Courtney, but why don't you try doing it elsewhere," said Elizabeth rolling her eyes and wondering what the blond was talking about. "There are sick people here, who need our help and you are interfering."

"Good job for you, Lizzie, changing bedpans." she sneered. "Right at your job level."

"Miss, if you don't leave this hospital, I will have to report you to the chief of staff for disturbing things." announced Steven from behind the blond.

"Go right ahead, do that, he is my father-in-law and will be on my side over poor pathetic Lizzie Lansing." Turning she got a good view of the handsome blond and said: "Bet you didn't know she was married to a psycho."

"Funny, I would think not knowing you were married to someone like that is better than knowingly being married to the mob," said Emily walking up. Then with a wink at Elizabeth. "But then that is your real worry. Elizabeth is a free woman, Jason is a free man and you, you are out on your ass. Elizabeth is working a job for which you need an education and you, you are hiding your past trying to buy respectability with money you earned by rescuing a dog."

"Jason, is your brother what do you think he would say about your insult?" she sneered.

"See, my brother is who he is, you, I tried to befriend you, out of spite to someone I care deeply for and for Jason's sake. But now I think my brother has woken up to who and what you are... by the way, what you accused Elizabeth of doing, that was my father. He was the one who told DSS about your true past. No amount of whitewash will change that you were a stripper, Courtney."

"Well your brother is a drunk and that was all his fault."

"See, I don't think so. Yeah, he caused the damage, but you, you were way too eager to strip. My guess is that it fell right in with you and the blond she-wolf who also slept with both of my brothers..."

Turning away from Courtney, Emily told Elizabeth and Steven she was sorry to hear about their dad. "What happened?"

"He was shot in Georgia, but by the time they got him to Moscow, it was too late," said Steven. Courtney was furious, how dare that witch Emily treat her that way... well she would see... she would pay for choosing Elizabeth over her.

Without telling Elizabeth what was going on, Emily got her to help with the shopping for redecorating Jason's penthouse. She didn't know if she had been telling the blond bimbo the truth, but she had wanted to rub her nose in it that things were over between her brother and her.

Spending the time with Cameron, Emily found herself not finding any real connections to Zander and was a bit surprised to realize the love she felt for that little boy had nothing to do with his parentage. Who didn't love a 10 week old who seemed to follow you with his eyes...

In the meantime, Sonny was frustrated to realize his threats against Sam hadn't worked. She had pointed out that Jax could very well be the father of her child and even went so far as to threaten an abortion when he said he wouldn't let her keep the baby.

Sweating as he tried to figure out a way to solve things without losing his volatile wife, he was starting to get desperate but he knew that with the mood Jason was in, he had to discuss things with him before implementing the only plan that he found might work.

Seeing Jax talking to his sister, he wished with all his heart that the child was the blonds, that way things could be back to normal. Carly and he without secrets, Courtney would dump the blond and realize he had been a substitute for the man she really wanted. Then his partner would be back to normal, all it would take was his sister telling him she wanted to come home...

Arriving home, he listened as Carly bitched and complained that Jason hadn't been answering his phone and that Emily was over at his penthouse, right that minute, and had DARED to tell her she wasn't welcome.

"He is out of town, Carly. Whatever Emily is doing, I am sure it is Jason's way of taking her mind off of the mess with Nik and his lost memory." After Courtney arrived and listening to the two of them bitch, he almost just sat down and shouted out that Sam was having his kid, just to give them something new to complain about.

When their tones seemed to have calmed down, Sonny started to listen in again, and as they talked trash about Elizabeth Webber, finally got what Jason had been saying the night he had left.

Looking at the two women who had done so much to influence his attitude towards the brunette, his mind flashed to what he had seen earlier that day at GH while attending a board meeting. Elizabeth helping an elderly woman who had just lost her husband... trying to superimpose either of the two blonds talking onto her face, he was shocked to realize that he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried.

"I have to go to the warehouse." he said then seeing Carly's eyes narrow in suspicion, he said, "I was hoping you would come with me, we could go for a romantic ride afterward?"

Sighing, Carly looked over at Courtney who looked ensconced in the chair she was sitting in and thought about Jason before saying. "Maybe next time?"

Pretending regret, Sonny went straight to the building and stayed there until midnight, a bit annoyed that the whole reason was the peace and quiet he found without his wife or sister there.

Calling the house, he talked to Carly who said Courtney was still there, "I have to go to GH, we had a worker get hurt and I need to check it out, I will see you in the morning."

Once he hung up, Carly looked at her friend and said: "When are you going to wake up and take Jason back?"

"Carly, I have moved on," she said with a top-lofty expression not wanting to add that she wanted more than what the blond had settled for. She wanted it all, money, power and most importantly respect...

When she had left, Courtney was on her way home when she saw the dark-haired man sitting on the docks. Stopping, she smirked internally as she finally found a way to get revenge on that bossy snotty bitch Emily I was adopted Quartermaine.

"Nik?" she asked as she sat down near the man. Pretending not to know his story, she soon had his trust when she said "I still feel bad, I was one of the last people brought off the building. You gave up your seat and that could have been me."

The dark haired pregnant woman had been leaving her boat when she saw the two talking. Listening in, she couldn't help wondering what the trashy blond was up to as she snowed the amnesiac.

Thinking about it as she walked towards the car lot, she thought about the man she loved and the child she was carrying. There was no way she was letting Jasper Jacks get custody of her child, he had the file that Alexis Davis had created on her and then had somehow found out the rest... which was more than enough to get this baby taken away.

This was her ticket to marriage to Sonny. There was no way she was losing him. She had fought hard for this one and no screeching blond like Carly Corinthos was going to stand in her way... she just needed an angle... a way to get Sonny to trust her, then he would watch his child grow, inside of her and bang... the blond bitch would be well on her way out.

Making her meeting, she listened and said: "So you know what to do?"

"Yeah, but they might decide to do the more accurate test later on," he warned. "What will you do then?"

"By then, I will have access in a limited way to more funds and will find someone to bribe. For now, I just have to get Jax off my back and Sonny to trust me."

The man sitting the car thought about it and grinned. He would love a chance to get revenge on Sonny Corinthos and taking away a child he thought was his was almost as good as taking away one that was...

Sam asked if he was certain he could do what she needed only to be told it wouldn't be the first time he altered a DNA test.

The next morning, Sam left out the pamphlet for the convent before heading out the door with the duffel bag. Pretending to be attempting to lose Sonny's guard she made damn sure he followed her to her first appointment then to where she caught the bus this time making sure to lose the man.

The guard quickly called his boss who told him to find out where she went, NOW! When he returned the call, Sonny said thank you then made a few calls. When he listened to what the woman said, he fumed as he figured out that Sam was going to abort the child.

There was no way in hell he was going to let her get away with that. Arriving at the clinic, he was relieved to see it was closed and had just returned to the warehouse in time to see Jason pulling up on his motorcycle.

"I need your help, I have a way to deal with Sam..." stated Sonny who then filled him in. "I need you to claim you are the father. I don't know how we work it, but we find a way. Then when the baby is born, you divorce her and keep the baby."

"No," said Jason looking at his boss in astonishment. "I thought about this and I have another way. At least if it is yours. Oh, she can stay at the penthouse but we will have eyes on her at all times and I am going to arrange for a nurse to move in."

"What for?" he asked then added, "Why not marry her?"

"Because there is something off with Samantha McCall and I don't trust her and clearly neither do you. But she will go along with my plan but you are going to stay away... you screwed this up the minute you threatened her, Sonny. She won't ever trust you, not that I really blame her." he said scolding his boss.

Sonny sat down then said "WE have to talk about something else... I did what you asked, thought about things while you were gone... you were right, I went too far in thinking you would harm Elizabeth. I am sorry for that."

"I am not the one you owe the apology to," he said growling. "She is, but she won't let you near her and I can't say I blame her. She only talks to me in passing and that is mainly because of the ingrained good manners."

Sonny said "I do get it, you know... Brenda and Elizabeth being the same... I have spent the last few nights wondering what became of the man who loved her, the first time she was in town. The man I was before Carly..."

"Carly isn't at fault, Sonny. Yeah, she eggs you on, but you do what you want, never thinking of the consequences to those around you."

"Like you... I get that... I do..." said the mobster when said with a sigh. "I don't trust Sam, that is part of the problem... the other part is I am regretting getting back together with Carly. I sat there one night listening to Courtney and her... know what I learned?"

Seeing Jason's face was a mask he said "That you were right, Carly acts like she owns both of us and that you are going to come to her someday and beg her to come back. I truly think that she used my sister..."

"Courtney and she were in it together... I just didn't see it because I was hurting..." said Jason. "I let her tell me who what when and even how to get with your sister but by just giving in... it has cost me way too much... I have lost..."

"Elizabeth and the child who should have been your firstborn son," said Sonny. Seeing Jason's shock, he said with "Not the child with my sister, I am talking about Elizabeth's little boy. I helped do this... and I think there might be a way to fix this... all of this... and we use what Sam is trying to do to fix both of our mistakes."

"Why if you aren't happy with Carly are you going to stay married?" asked Jason.

"Because I love my sons and honestly... I think that if I can find me again, I can save my marriage. I still love Carly, I just don't like her very much." he said with a heavy sigh.

Jason stopped and thought about it then with an empathic sigh realized Sonny was where he had been during his relationship with Courtney only he had children to think about. He had loved Courtney but mainly because she had been there, patting his ego, telling him he was her hero, but in truth, he nor she had truly known each other, He had loved the idea of not being a loser in love anymore and she had wanted... who knows.

With the death of the child he had never known about, it should have ended then, but guilt pushed him into making an even worse mistake. Suddenly relieved that he had escaped that he then felt guilty about the baby he was happy not to be a father, Jason thought about Elizabeth and the little boy that Sonny was right, that he wished was his own...

Walking outside without a word to Sonny, he looked across the harbor to the island in the middle and felt at peace. He had work to do to achieve his goals, but in the end, he needed to fix his friendship at the very least with Elizabeth.

If he had heard Sonny's thoughts, Jason would have been shouting no as his best friend decided to reclaim that role and try to fix things for him. Sonny was thinking about what Jason had been saying regarding Sam and a nurse and had an idea...

Heading to GH, the mobster went looking for the student nurse and found her talking to a blond doctor while trying to convince someone to return her son. Hearing them all laughing, he stood back and watched wistfully as another nurse tried to convince Elizabeth to keep her son for the night. "But Jack and I need practice and Cam is such a good baby, look at him, he is even smiling in agreement.

The new mother gave her son a wry knowing grin then waited a few minutes then saw the nurse sniffing then looking down at the little baby before suddenly handing him back quickly. "What are you feeding him?"

Steven offered to change Cameron while the two nurses kept on discussing children, childbirth, and lack of sleep. Seeing the dark haired man watching his sister, he returned Cam to his fancy pram and nodding at his sister walked over and asked: "May I help you?"

"I was hoping to talk to Elizabeth for a moment, but I can wait until she is finished." he said politely while mentally planning on having Bernie do research on this rather possessive young man.

"Somehow I doubt you are one of my sister's friends," stated Steven as he crossed his arms and glared at the man. "See, if you were a friend, I would have met you last week at the memorial for our father, but you weren't there... so why do you want to talk to my sister, again?"

"I didn't say, look please ask Elizabeth if she is free a minute?" asked Sonny as he figured out Jason didn't have any competition for regaining Elizabeth.

"Steven, I will take care of this. Could you take Cameron to my car," she said to her brother staying between her son and the godfather. Looking coolly at Sonny, she said "If this is about your insecure sister, leave me out of it. I have done my last favor for anyone with name Corinthos or who shares blood with you."

Sonny flinched at the coldness and anger he saw in her eyes and said: "Look, I just was hoping we could talk."

"Whatever it is you want, Sonny. The answer is no. I am done being used and tossed away by people and frankly, you are the last person on this earth that should have the nerve to be asking me for anything."

"Elizabeth, I am sorry for what I said to you back when you came and asked me to let Ric and you be. I have always considered you a good friend-"

Hearing her snort, he was shocked as she started to laugh. "Really, well I guess I should be glad I am not your enemy Sonny, with friends like you, well, either way, I have enemies but at least I don't have to worry about them smiling at my face while stabbing me in the back."

"Look, I know Ric did a number on-

Looking around, Elizabeth made sure no one was close then moved next to Sonny and said "Ric has nothing to do with this. I will never trust you again, not after hearing from your own mouth how you wanted to kill me. Let me make this very clear, Sonny. I will never, ever be stupid enough to trust you, and you can pass that message on to the so-called more than a friend. I am finished, I took abuse from your bitch of a wife, your imbecile sister and your sad and pathetic brother who saw me as a way to get to you and the man who has his head stuck so far up your ass he can't think on his own. I am done, got it, DONE."

Walking to the elevator ignoring the dazed and confused man following her she stopped just before getting on and said "I have a child, a son and I won't let him ever see his mother being used or walked over again. Not for anyone, even people I had once thought were my friends."

The door closed, Sonny stood there in shock as he finally registered how badly he had screwed up. Turning to the guard following him he asked: "Francis, what the hell just happened here?"

The man stood there, with a blank face, not wanting to tell his boss something that should have happened ages ago. Inwardly smirking and shouting yes, he just said: "I have no idea, do you know why Elizabeth would think any of that stuff?"

The mobster returned to the chapel, sat down and went through the last couple of years, he had done so from Jason's perspective, and now did so from Elizabeth's and then stood. "We have some work to do."

Walking into his penthouse an hour later, Sonny looked at his wife and said "We are going to the Island, as a celebration of getting our lives straightened out. Why don't you call Courtney and invite her along?"

"What about Jason, did you already ask him?" she said with a bright smile.

"No, he will be staying here, he has to keep an eye on Lorenzo for now." Then knowing she wouldn't go and wouldn't ask Courtney without incentive, he said confidently "I have an idea how to fix things with Jason but not here, you know how things always get crazy around here."

"But how will they fix things if they are apart? He has been acting strangely, Sonny and then there is the question regarding Elizabeth, I think she is planning on trying to sink her claws back into Jason, we can't let that happen, Sonny."

"Carly, I have to go to the Island for meetings, I am inviting you because one of your arguments was that I don't treat you as an equal, now that I am, you are fussing about going. Fine, I will go alone, you can stay here and piss off Jason by interfering or you can help him by getting Courtney out of town, there are some things going on that... let's just say it would be safer for her to be gone."

Elizabeth went home and was taking care of her son when she heard her brother returning from their grams empty house. Letting him into the small cottage, she saw the packages he was carrying and said "What on earth?"

"Dinner, as well as the pipe, to fix your leak," he said with a grin. "Maybe then you will have calmed down enough to tell me what was going on earlier."

"I was just informing someone I have no intention of lying down and being roadkill for anyone, no matter how connected they are," she said then hearing the doorbell let in Emily who said as she lifted the white bags with food from Kelly's. "I brought the busy mom dinner."

"You and me both," said Steven with a laugh. The three sat down and ate, talking about the hospital, Cameron and eventually Nik. "So, anyhow, I am going to take Grandmother and your advice and let things happen."

"Em, I am so sorry," said Elizabeth hugging her friend. "So, did you finish redecorating?"

"Yeah, I should tell you..." with a guilty expression on her face, she told her who it had been for.

Elizabeth tensed, a bit angry but then looking at her son said: "It's fine, but Emily for now on, please leave me out of things, regarding Jason, okay?"

With a sad smile, Emily agreed then said: "So, Steven, how did you find out about this place?"

"It was my parent's house, well the people who bought me, the Taylors, they left it to me and dad had been using it as a rental property... when I found out it was empty I talked Elizabeth into moving in since I didn't want to."

"He likes the indoor pool and girls in the laundry room too much at his new apartment." teased his sister when she saw his face and knew that he had no intention of living in a house again, not as long as the memory of his lost daughter plagued him at least.

Sonny left the penthouse and met Jason at the warehouse along with Max, his younger brother Milo and Francis. "I have Marco on Sam. He says she is staying at the convent for now, but eventually, she is going to have to return. Jason, are you still willing to work on getting her here."

"Yes, but it will be on my terms," he said evenly then saw Sonny nod at the men ordering them out. "What is it?"

Telling him about his visit to the hospital and not telling him his plan to hire Elizabeth to watch Sam, just saying he had wanted to apologize, he gave him the full story of what she had said.

"I knew, I just..." Jason's voice went hoarse as he said "That she would even think... that she could believe I would... that hurts worse than... but when I think about what has happened... I know... that I caused her to believe that... I just... god, Sonny. I hate what she thinks I became..."

Gripping his shoulder, Sonny said "I understand. I was standing there, listening to her and seeing Brenda's face. I know, trust me, I do."

"I am going to take Carly and Courtney to the island, give you some time to try and fix things without their interference but I don't know how long I can distract them."

"Sonny, neither of them would have the power to hurt this, if I hadn't given them it. I let my hurt and her hurt and anger... plus the other stuff..."

"Other stuff..." asked Sonny.

"I thought about some stuff while I was away, then talked to my grandmother... I get why Elizabeth was so angry when she left my penthouse... for the longest time I couldn't see past my anger that she wouldn't listen to me... that she didn't see things the way I did... but we were both in the wrong."

"You both were too stubborn to talk to one another, you were too busy listening to yourself shouting," said Sonny his mind elsewhere. "Jason, I promise, I will help you fix this... I owe you my life and I owe a woman who was once my friend because she was right, if I had given the order, I would have been furious with you for not carrying it out, yet Elizabeth has never done anything to hurt me and has been more of a friend to me than either of my family members. I am also going to do some thinking..."

"About..." asked Jason.

"The dark times and how when I go there the damage I do. You have told me for years there is something wrong and I have let Carly talk me out of getting help... let her fluff up my ego and now... for the sake of my children I cannot do that anymore."

Jason watched the jet leaving the airport from his motorcycle on the access road to the runway, his mind on how to fix things with Elizabeth. First up... was finding a way to get her to talk to him... the only way he had would cost him her trust because it meant doing something he knew was going to set her back up.

Calling Francis he asked, "Have you checked her schedule?"

"Yeah, but Jason are you sure about this? You do realize this could blow up in your face?"

The blond enforcer said, "Either way it is going to blow up, but I need to talk to her, and this could if I do it right, at least get her to listen to me, even if the words only said and not heard."

"It's your life...her brother pushes her to paint, at least once a week. He usually keeps her son for her that night." said the man as he went to do something that he was not happy about. An hour later, after Elizabeth had left for her studio, he watched as she drank the sedative-laced hot cocoa and soon was fast asleep.

Lifting her, he carried her to the safe house and then looked at the man pacing back and forth before saying. "Good luck."

A bit later, a groggy Elizabeth stood holding her head as she tried to figure out where she was. Leaving the bedroom, she was glad to realize the door wasn't locked. At the front door, however, she found she couldn't get out, the same thing with the windows.

Hearing footsteps, she turned around and saw Jason standing there with a cup she assumed was coffee and turned white angry with herself for being stupid enough to tangle with Sonny. "Jason, please for my son's sake..."

The blond looked up in shock as he saw the tears running silently down her face and the one things he hadn't considered came out of her mouth. "Please don't kill me."

His eyes widening in horror, he could only stare as she looked at him with what seemed a fatalistic certainty he was going to kill her. "Don't do this..."

Anger and bitterness slipped out as she gave up hope. "Why, will it give you nightmares, wait the brain-damaged thug doesn't do nightmares, does he? You know, I defended you for years, protected you, cared for you, and all it ever got me was heartache, drugged and married to a nut job and blinded by your drug addicted bitch of an ex-wife. Is this better, Jason? If I make you angry, does it make it easier for you to kill me?"

When he stood there, not moving, she walked up to him and stared him in the eyes then said. "Here, does this make it better, if you don't have to face me?"

With that, she knelt and faced the floor. "Does this help? Does it make it easier for the killer in you to do your boss' bidding? Or is it your ex-wife, once again blaming me for her own screw ups. No, I know it's the best friend who still wants to fuck you, is that who wants you end my life? What petty thing set her off? Set any of them off?"

Furious that he didn't say a word, she stood then turned then whispered "Why? That is all I want to know, why?"

In shock, Jason just looked at her, not knowing what to say. He had expected anger at being grabbed, he had expected her to fight him, but this... this was slowly killing him. Turning, he walked to the kitchen, sat down the coffee cup and walked back to where she stood in the doorway.

"Why? You want to know why?" he said his tone hard as he looked at her. Then watching as she stood there, not moving, not talking now that she had had her say... and a dam burst and things that were better off left unsaid came bursting out in pain and anger.

"Because that bastard Lucky was always first, even when you knew he was a lying piece of garbage. Because you trusted that bastard Ric who you knew all of ten minutes before you gave him your heart. Because I would have died for you, I would have done anything and I mean anything for you, but you always rejected me and my heart."

When Elizabeth started to close up, Jason reached out and grabbed her saying "No, you wanted to know why, well why don't we talk about why? How about how you slept with Zander knowing I was in love with you? How about how you never gave me the chances you did everyone else in your life... how about you... you had a child with another man? A child that years ago I dreamed of us having...?"

"That you think I would... that I could... you don't know me at all. I loved you, you Elizabeth Webber, I spent years dealing with your preference for that loser Spencer, that you would ever think that I could k—ki- that I could do that..." he said his voice trailing off. "It is more proof that everything I thought we once had was nothing..."

"I know how that feels," she said in a hard tone. "Only I had to hear it straight from you while talking to the bitch who knew I was in love with you. There is nothing you can say, Jason. We all know exactly where I rank in your life and that you will do whatever Sonny tells you to do."

Flinching, Jason walked past her and sat down on the sofa looking at her as she continued. "Let me guess, if I am not here to be killed... you must want something from me. If the great and powerful Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan now deign to notice little ole me, I must have something you want or need. My guess would be needed because if it just wanted, you would have figured another way to get it."

Staring at her, Jason finally gave up trying to win her one way and went for the other. "Of course you are right, we do need something from you. Sam McCall is pregnant."

"So who is the father, Sonny?" then with a snort, she said "Yeah, of course, it is Sonny, let me guess, he needs you to say it is his so that he can have his perfect world... what, does he want me to warn Sam, to watch out from drugged out strippers who might hit her with her car if she thinks she is losing you?"

Gritting his teeth as he let her talk, Jason said: "No, we think she is lying about it being Sonny's but the only reliable DNA test can't be run for a while."

"Okay, so how does the great one need my help because trust me, even if it is his, I would help her hide it, no kid deserves to be sucked into that mess you all call your lives. And with Carly as a stepmother, that poor kid wouldn't stand a chance."

"No, we are taking care of the DNA tests, we are just afraid she might harm the baby if she doesn't get what she wants." he said softly.

"So why doesn't Sonny give her what she wants, wait, of course, he is too selfish to do so. Why be truthful and honest when lying and cheating works better, at least for Sonny. He got what he wanted, so he moved back to what he had." she sniped.

"So what was to be my part, was I to spy on this sad and pathetic creature who was stupid enough to trust you. No way, after all minus the kid, I have been the roadkill on the Corinthos/Morgan family's highway to paradise and frankly, all my sympathy is with her."

Flinching, he said, "At some point, we are going to have to clear the air, because you are living under some pretty wrong ideas."

"No, we don't. I am quite happy with my beliefs, they keep me and my son safe from you and your sad chosen family. Now, if you will excuse me, I would like to go home to my son now."

Chapter 2

When Jason opened the door to the SUV, Elizabeth gave him a scornful glance then said "I think that you get that if there is a repeat of this, I would have no problems going to Mac Scorpio and getting your ass tossed in jail. If not, consider this a warning."

Slamming the door shut, Jason saw the blond hair of his guard in the shadows and just shook his head no, letting the man know that he hadn't been able to fix things, that he had been right, things were worse than they had been before his brilliant idea.

Heading home, he let himself into the penthouse for the first time since Emily had redecorated it for him and breathed a sigh of relief. Reaching for the note propped up on the mantle, he went to the fridge hoping her message about stocking it included some beer because he had a very large urge to get drunk.

Once on the new sofa, he pulled open the note and sighed.

Jason;

I hope you like the changes and I have to say I understand the reason behind them. I am so sorry for my part is encouraging you to marry Courtney. Mainly because I knew that you were doing so in spite of having feelings for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth and I were lost to one another for a while but since we started talking, one subject is forbidden and that is my brother, you. I see her anger and pain buried deep beneath her surface indifference and know that you have a long road ahead of you.

I hope you succeed. Jason, if my bout with cancer taught me anything, it is that life is too short to have regrets and do nothing about them. However, before you move forward and try to repair things, I hate to say it but you need to take a good look at the mess that is your own life.

When Elizabeth came back early from Napa with Cameron, we talked and she told me that she spent the time before her son was born thinking about things and made a few decisions. One of which was not to fall back into the trap of being her old self. The one with low self-esteem and who let everyone walk over her.

She told me a few things, like how Courtney was drugged up and then hit her. How you covered it up. I was furious with you, after everything you have said to the family regarding how they covered up for AJ, how you used that as a major part of the excuse when you walked away... then to marry the woman who caused Elizabeth to be blind...

I was even more shocked at the coldness she described from when you asked her not to press charges. But I didn't bring it up to you because I have seen you still for the last few months acting pretty much like nothing changed... then I noticed that things had changed.

You weren't giving in to Carly's rather incessant demands to fix your marriage, you were taking long rides on your bike and most importantly, I saw that you were laughing with the few select guards that you let know the real you.

Then Elizabeth came home, oh, everyone was saying you were in a bad mood because your divorce was final, but then I saw you talking to Elizabeth one day. I saw your face, big brother and I knew... but then I saw hers about a month ago, then heard her call her brother who had been with her when she gave birth. She was talking in code, but I could hear the pain and knew, just knew something had happened...

When I heard Elizabeth was back talking to Dr. Collins, the man who treated her for her PTSD, I knew that whatever had sent her back to being scared had to have involved either you or the people around you. Jason, give it time, Elizabeth on the surface is hard and angry about your right now, but deep down, deep down, she is hurting and for her to hurt THAT bad, she has to still love you. What you have to work on, is regaining her trust.

With love; Emily.

Wanting to crumble the note, Jason just tossed it in his box before heading up the stairs to his new bedroom. Entering what should have been the largest room in the upper floor, he was a bit surprised to see it wasn't.

Walking back into the hall, he wandered around looking at the changes and was amused to see that Emily had somehow had the entire upstairs reconfigured from what used to be a four bedroom apartment to a three bedroom and that the square footage lost from the former master bedroom was now the closet for his new room.

Seeing another note, he read it then sat down and thought about what she said. Then looking at the clock, knew that Bernie would still be up since it was only 10:30. Calling the accountant, he made a request then fell into bed, thinking that tomorrow was another day and one that would hopefully give him an idea of how to fix this mess with Elizabeth.

Elizabeth went up to the studio and made sure she hadn't left any of the expensive paints she had been working with open, then decided to head home, knowing she would destroy any painting she tried to work on in the mood she was in.

Just as she hit the ground level, she saw Sam McCall and frowned. Jason had talked the whole ride back to her studio, she had tuned most of it out but what had been clear was that the woman was supposedly staying at a convent in upstate near the Vermont border.

Not sure why she did it, maybe because she didn't want to end up in the middle of the mess she had going, Elizabeth stayed out of sight but moved in close enough to hear her talking to a dark haired man. Frowning as she tried to figure out where she knew the voice from, she was a bit pissed to listen as they plotted on fixing the DNA tests to say Sonny was the father when it was a good possibility he wasn't.

When the two had left separately, she hurried home. Seeing Steven asleep with Cam on top of him, she gently eased her brother's fingers from where they were curved around her son and lifted him to take him up to bed. When the blond didn't move, she went to her room and found her extra pillow and grabbed a light blanket before tossing it on him.

While it was the beginning of July, it was a cool night with the breeze coming off the lake. Returning to her own room, Elizabeth changed into her bedclothes then sat down and followed Dr. Collins orders. Writing down a timeline of how she had left that day without writing notes regarding what had happened at each time, she found, for the most part, her day had been a good one... until Jason Morgan had reared his arrogant ass.

The next morning, after feeding Cam, Elizabeth sat there trying to figure out whether she owed it to Jasper Jacks to fix things. Deciding to go talk to the man after a quick stop to pick up something else she needed to talk to the man about, she had no sooner entered his office then she heard him discussing Courtney Matthews with the woman from social services as she was leaving...

Hearing the blond vouch for the former stripper, she started to leave disgusted at his being taken in by the blond but in the hall waited until the woman was gone then asked his assistant if she could find some time to talk with him. Being let into his office, she saw him coming around the desk to shake her hand and held up hers.

"This will be quick. First of all, I heard Sam McCall discussing faking the DNA tests on the docks to show Sonny as the father and I didn't think you deserved to be lied to."

Seeing his shock, she said "Then when I arrived, I heard your glowing recommendation to Mrs. Potts from Social Services. I am going to tell you a story and if you try to repeat it, I will deny telling you, but do you recall hearing I was hit by a car that drove off and that I was blinded temporarily."

"Yes," he said a bit confused. "I heard, Courtney told me that some druggie stole her car. I know she felt pretty bad about it."

Scoffing, Elizabeth sat down and said "Oh, it was a druggie alright. However, Courtney was the person behind the wheel and zonked out in drugs. But I also have talked to her since. She made it damn clear that it wasn't an accident."

Seeing his doubt, she said "Oh, I am not lying. As for your saying that Sonny's influence was responsible for her behavior, sorry it happened before Sonny. It was while she was still married to AJ. Her brother, who trust me, I am not defending, wasn't party to it until she refused to stop working there."

"No, you have that wrong and Elizabeth, I read the police report, I know that someone stole her car. She said you hated her but I never would expect you to come to me with lies like this..." he said dazedly. "I thought you were better than that."

With a smirk, she said "I have proof. Here."

Listening to her tape, he looked up in shocked disbelief then said quietly "I clearly owe you an apology. I can't believe I bought into her act. How come you didn't get her sent to jail, let alone went along with the coverup."

"I just wanted it to go away. I was blind, feeling sick as a dog all the time and not ready to take on the mess that is the Corinthos family." Elizabeth could still recall how sick she had been then and add that to being blind, she sometimes wondered what would have happened with Jason's request if she had been well.

Jax sat there, thinking about the past and then his recent interest in Courtney Matthews who he had thought was just caught in the middle of a bad relationship. From her version of the story, she had been an innocent young girl caught up with being in love with a bad boy. Strange how she had left out quite a bit. When Elizabeth had stood, he once again thanked her for the information regarding both Sam and Courtney then walked her to the door.

Sitting down at his desk, he made a call and a mere two hours later had a file as thick as one of his business contacts. Reading through it, he at first was going to walk away but then he received another file from the same source twice as thick.

Reading it then needing air at the idea of this woman being the possible mother of his child, Jax went to GH where he stopped to visit the nursery. "They are wonderful, aren't there?"

Turning to see Emily Quartermaine standing there watching the babies next to him, he said: "Yes, I just can't help thinking... there is a woman, she is pregnant and I am one of the possible fathers... yet..."

Seeing her curious expression he gave a sad sigh then said: "She is just the last woman on earth I want as the mother of my child."

Sam had been paying off the lab tech when she heard what Jax was saying and her lips thinned as she pressed them together in anger. Snarling to herself that at least the tests would say that he wasn't the father, she thought about it then went to see the tech again. "I want the results to still say what I want them to, but I need to know the truth, for myself."

Nodding he said, "For what you are paying me, I will make them say I am the father if that is what you want."

Shuddering as she walked away, Sam saw Elizabeth Webber watching her from the hub. Wondering why she seemed to be staring at her, she just shrugged thinking what did she care about some lowly student nurse thought about her.

In Port Charles, it seemed everywhere Elizabeth turned she was running into Sam McCall. When Steven gave her the letter regarding their dad's will, when she went to Kelly's for lunch with Emily, when she stopped into the bank, the woman was there, talking to someone or coming in afterward.

Today she had volunteered to work a few training hours at the Mercy Hospital free clinic as a clerk and sure enough, Sam showed up when the paramedics brought in a man having a heart attack but refusing to go to the hospital.

Seeing Mike Corbin, she didn't even look at the man just told them to ignore the patient's wishes and take him to the emergency room then scolded the gambler asking if he was trying to kill himself? When Sam chased after the ambulance, she just shook her head at the four-inch heels on the pregnant woman's feet.

Sonny got the call from Port Charles. He had been talking to Jason, trying to find out why things weren't working out with Elizabeth only to be told it was Jason's business and he had enough troubles without Sonny trying to help. Knowing what he had to do in spite of wanting to keep them away, he regretfully went to find Carly and Courtney who had been clamoring to return to Port Charles and gave the blond the news.

"Sonny, we have to hurry home, Mike needs us," said Courtney with tears in her eyes. The mobster sighed then told them both. "I have arranged for the jet to come back and get us, so be ready in six hours."

The entire flight back, not a word regarding Mike was even mentioned as the two women fixated on the missing member of their quartet. At least Carly did, Courtney just plotted how to reach Jax and make sure he saw her playing the dutiful daughter.

When they arrived in Port Charles, Sonny gave a heavy sigh when Carly pouted that Jason hadn't met them at the airport. The only good part about it was that Courtney had suggested maybe he would be at the hospital when they arrived. His wife kissed their two boys then hurried into a limo with her sister in law.

When they arrived in the parking lot, Carly banged on the dividing window and snapped "Why the hell are we at Mercy?"

"Mike Corbin refused the transfer to GH when it was offered." stated the limo driver.

"We will just see about that." fumed Carly. "With all the money we donate, he should have been taken straight there not to this substandard public hospital."

Rushing in, they were sent to Mike's room and saw him lying there while a small petite brunette was talking and joking with him. "Sam, what the hell are you doing with my father-in-law?" snapped Carly.

"Be nice, she saved my life." protested Mike.

Sam demurred the statement and said "No, I just called 911. Thankfully Elizabeth Webber was in the clinic when we got here. She insisted he immediately be taken to the hospital."

"He should be at GH and as soon as I see his doctor I am going to make sure that happens. Why didn't Elizabeth do that, she knows how important we are to that place. Sonny is on the board." boasted Carly.

"Carly, I wanted to be brought here. I know a nurse that works here," said Mike. "Now, why don't the two of you tell me what you are up to."

Inwardly planning on letting Elizabeth have a piece of her mind for her oversight, Courtney went to the hall and called out to a passing nurse. "You there, I want to speak to Mike Corbin's doctor immediately."

"Mr. Corbin's doctor will be back tomorrow morning," she told the bossy blond. "If you wish to speak to him, that is when to be here."

"Do you know who I am?"

"Since you are visiting the patient, my guess would be a family member or friend, but it doesn't change the facts. Dr. Adams will be here in the morning, right now I am certain he is already on the golf course."

Courtney watched as Sam left, her eyes narrowing when she realized the woman was a little thicker around the waist then she used to be. Shrugging her shoulders, certain that she was wrong, Courtney walked back inside and listened as Carly asked where Jason was and Mike looked at her startled. "Why would he care?"

"Because you are his father-in-law, everyone knows that," she stated. "Besides, Sonny and I are his best friends, he should care because of that if nothing else."

Wanting to snap why would he care when his own son didn't, instead he just reminded Carly he was his ex-father-in-law. "Not for long, Courtney and he are working on reconciling."

On their way to the limo five minutes later, a laughing Courtney said "I am getting paranoid, remember when I thought Elizabeth was pregnant, well I was just looking at Sam McCall and thought the same thing. But it really just looks like she needs to lay off Kelly's food for a while, she is getting a little thick."

At GH, Elizabeth saw her ex-husband Ric using the same smarmy moved on Alexis Davis he had on her and just sighed. She liked the high-strung attorney but she truly doubted the woman would believe her if she tried to warn her about the man.

Walking into Alan Quartermaine's office, she said: "You asked to speak to me?"

"I am sure you heard about Mary Bishop. You were the last nurse in her room and I am afraid we have to talk to you about that. I think you might need an attorney here to protect your interests. Just to be on the safe side since it is an official visit from Mac."

Seeing Mac Scorpio standing there, she felt her jaw drop then looked at Alan and said: "Why, I went in checked her blood pressure, took her temperature and then left after making sure her IV line was working okay."

Mac kept his expression hidden, he didn't actually think Elizabeth had any connection to this but she had been the last person in the room who was making her best friends' life miserable. "Did you see anyone lurking in the hallways."

"Lurking no. I saw the board members minus Sonny Corinthos going to their meeting down the hall, I saw Emily and the rest of her class working with nurse Johnson, I saw... er, Mac, I saw a man in military dress blues but well he seemed to be visiting Mrs. Oliviet, but when I talked to Mrs. Oliviet later, she said her grandson hadn't been there."

"Why didn't you mention this before?" asked Mac annoyed.

"Because she has Alzheimer's. I just assumed she forgot him." she said then said "I actually think I have a picture of him, well of his back anyhow. Maybe if nothing else, he saw something."

Returning with her camera, she showed him the photo she had taken earlier that day of Emily in her brand new lab coat. "See, the man back there."

Mac squinted then asked "Elizabeth, may I take your camera, for now?"

"Yes but can you be careful, I have a picture on there of Cameron trying to eat his feet." she stated.

When Mac had left, Alan told Elizabeth. "I wish you had come to me about this... I spent the morning trying to convince Mac to wait until I got an attorney for you. He was told it was a possibility you over medicated the woman since you were still a training nurse and she was given too much of her sedative."

"But, I don't administer meds, sir." she reminded the chief of staff. "Sir, I have to head out now, I am meeting with the attorney who called to talk to Steven and me."

"Go ahead, and Elizabeth, once again, I am sorry I wasn't gentler in giving you my condolences regarding Jeff."

"Dr. Quartermaine, I had no idea you even knew my father," she said with wide eyes. "Between that news and finding out he was dead... you had no idea I would be that upset."

"Elizabeth, just a second, you didn't know that Monica used to be married to your father?" he asked in astonishment. "Were you aware of her relationship with Rick Webber?"

"Yeah, I knew about that, and I knew my dad was married before, but I thought only to Heather. I had no idea that she had EVER been married to my father." she said then when at the door asked, "Er, do you know my mother as well?"

"No, Jeff met Carolyn after he left town. We would only run into them at medical conventions," he said then when she had left, sat down wondering what to do about Mary Bishop. He had been afraid his daughter had killed the woman who had lied to Nik for several long weeks about who he was.

Elizabeth rushed into the room and asked "Steven, have you been waiting long?"

"No, Elizabeth this is dad's Colorado attorney. Turns out Dad never updated his will before he left for Europe."

Looking at the man, she then looked at her brother who looked a bit flustered. "What is it? I mean, if dad didn't leave me anything, I truly don't care, he left me behind and forgot about me all these years so why should that be a surprise."

"Well, how about I cut to the chase then give the two of you a copy of his will." said the man. "Okay, simply put, he left his house to his wife, Carolyn. He left your sister a trust fund worth about 2 million dollars. He left the two of you a trust fund of about the same amount to be equally divided. Then there are his real estate holdings."

Seeing their surprise, he said "When your father's first set of parents died, he invested his inheritance in local real estate, then when your Grandfather Steve Hardy died, he did the same. Here is a list of the properties. There seems to be a small problem though, your father had a habit of buying distressed properties and fixing them up then reselling them."

"There is no money?" asked Steven a bit surprised. His father tended to be very conservative with his investments.

"Actually you are both two very wealthy individuals, you own land, but that is part of the problem. There was an illegal attempt to control some land you dad bought back in the early nineties. Your father has continued paying taxes on it and well... it seems that someone, somehow faked up a bill of sale."

"So someone built on our land?" asked Steven. "Wait, is this the land you mentioned near the hospital?"

"No, see the land near the hospital where you both work is office space. That is owned by you, Dr. Webber, this is strictly your sister's land." he said "Now, I had my people look into it and from the records it looks like a Mr. Frank Smith faked up the deed, but with his death, the land was sold to a Corinthos/Morgan corporation."

"So we own the land their warehouses sit on?" she asked in shock and inwardly laughing at the irony.

"No, not that land. I believe the plot is further down the Harbor. It's identified as city property plot 5G, 6G, and 7G plus the built-up landfill area that used to be known as Viewpoint. Now since the improvements done on the land were illegally done, you don't owe the company a dime. However, the building is an apartment building so you might have to work out a deal with the lease tenants. However, there are two penthouses at the top..."

Elizabeth burst into outright laughter as she got what he was saying. "I own Harborview towers?"

"Yes, Ms. Webber you do." said the man who handed her the paperwork. "With the will having gone through probate, here are the copies for your records and for your attorneys. I have to head back to Boulder as I am not licensed to practice here in Port Charles."

When the man had left, Elizabeth looked at her brother who knew her whole history with Sonny and Jason, minus the death threats and said: "How do you feel about moving into a penthouse?"

"Elizabeth, are you sure you want to do this?" he asked then said, "Or should I say, Lizzie?"

"Oh, it's Lizzie, and I will let it be, for now," she said. "Until one of them pushes me too far, then I will take great pleasure in having them removed. I can see Mac Scorpio's face the day I ask him to evict Jason and Sonny. He might have a heart attack right there and then. I almost wish Taggert was still here."

Heading to Kelly's to meet her babysitter, Elizabeth paid Georgie for watching Cameron then saw the teenager lingering as they walked down the docks towards her studio and asked gently "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, it's just... you know about Sage Alcazar, what happened at the Quartermaines?" she said a bit fearfully. Then looking around asked Elizabeth if they could talk down on the old bench. They never saw Jason stopping just out of sight as they continued their conversation in what they considered private. Looking at Elizabeth, Georgie repeated her question.

"I know that she pushed you to the limit and you were worried because there was a blackout and that you locked her in an empty unused cooler." she said.

"Dillon has been acting weird since then," she said with a heavy sigh. "I just don't know what to think. I mean, I feel bad about what happened but at the same time..."

"She deserved to be locked up in the cooler," said Elizabeth. "I get it, Georgie did you know there was a raving lunatic wandering the house? NO, you didn't. I heard about this diary she left, but Georgie, she made the choice to be a bitch to you. But she wasn't the one who cheated, yeah she chased but Dillon made the decision to stop running. No matter what, he was the one who owed you, not Sage at least regarding the affair. Her attitude afterward, well that is on her."

"I know, things haven't been so good between us. I just feel so guilty."

"Okay, I have no idea how to explain this but don't. And Sage, no matter what else, put it out there, she was honest that she wanted Dillon. She had the courage to be truthful with you, at least..."

"Dillon is claiming I am looking for an excuse to break up with him... I don't think I am, but I honestly don't know," she said slightly miserable. "He suggested we take a break so I can make up my mind but I don't want to lose him but things are uncomfortable enough for us and I am not ready to take the next step."

"Okay, hold it right there. Are you talking about sleeping with him?" she asked. Seeing Georgie blush, Elizabeth said "Don't do it, at least not if you are having doubts. Trust me, as someone who let herself get pushed into that twice. I know the mistake you are making."

"What do you mean?" asked the confused sixteen-year-old.

"I slept with Lucky when he came back because I was grateful that I got my miracle and he came back to me. Too bad at that point, I didn't want him as a boyfriend anymore but I let my friends convince me that things would go back to normal... it didn't. Lucky and I are barely friends and I think if I had made different choices back then things wouldn't have happened the way they did. As for... did you know that I slept with Ric Lansing and got pregnant? That is why we got married... I let someone goad me into sleeping with him to prove to myself that I was over another man. It was without a doubt one of the biggest mistakes of my life."

"Who would do that?" Then she groaned as she came up with a name.

"The Doublemint twins," she said knowing the younger girl and her sister called them that. When Georgie laughed she said "They were at Kelly's talking about all these wonderful plans Jason and Courtney had. Did you know that Jason and I used to be friends?"

"Yeah, dad was always worried about you, when things got bad between Jason and you last year, he said that he wasn't surprised. That Carly saw you as a serious rival to her need to be first in Jason's life. When Maxie pointed out she wasn't jealous of Courtney, he said of course not, Courtney lets Carly run her life and that anyone with half a brain could see Morgan was still hung up on you."

"Well, he had it half right, see Jason never loved me. He told her that, I overheard him." she admitted then kept talking "But then Ric talked me into going out one night and I ran into Carly and she hurt my feelings. Then I walked to Kelly's and ran into Jason and Courtney. They asked me something that to this day still hurts badly... but then another run in with Carly and bam, I wanted to make myself feel like less of a loser and all I saw was a charming man, I had no idea he was using me..."

"I sort of get what you are saying but Elizabeth, I love Dillon." she said.

"If he truly loves you, he will wait. I know that sounds like a cliche and sort of bad coming from an unwed mother, but Georgie, don't be pushed into something. If and when you are ready, you will know. You will have no doubts."

"Have you ever felt that ready?" she asked then pulled back and apologized only for Elizabeth to say wistfully. "I thought I was, but the man I talked about trying for that future with, turned out to be worse than a frog."

"What do you mean..."

"Long story but in the end, the man I thought I could spend the rest of my life with... well... he was made up, a person I saw in my head. He wasn't real and now that the truth is known, I have to wonder... well... I have to wonder why I didn't notice how badly I was being used."

Sitting silently for a moment, Elizabeth looked at her and said "At least you know Dillon loves you, but one bit of advice, talk to him. Be truthful about what is in your heart and listen with your ears open to what is in his. Don't let Tracy interfere but do understand that no matter what, she will always be his mother and the Quartermaines will always be in his life." Jason saw his phone light up and went back up the stairs and around the corner heading towards Kelly's for a bit to listen to what Francis wanted.

Kissing the top of Cam's head as he rested in his lightweight stroller and walking to the steps, Georgie turned and said "Thanks, Elizabeth. I guess I had better get home, I have to talk to my dad about some stuff."

"Good luck, Georgie," she said with a sigh as the younger girl rushed away. Hearing footsteps, she groaned when she Carly coming down the stairs. She knew her luck had been too good, the wicked witch of the west had been gone and things had been so quiet.

"Aren't you going to even acknowledge me?" asked the blond as she came down the last step and moved in front of Elizabeth. "I want to talk to you."

"The usual custom among friends is to say hello in greeting. Since we aren't friends, why would I bother? And frankly Carly I could give a crap what you want."

"You stay the hell away from Jason," she said. "And the rest of my family. Do you hear me? You stick to your low rent friends and family and living in that little tiny cottage on that lower class street and stay the hell away from my friends and family."

When the blond moved in closer, Elizabeth got nervous and said: "Hey, backup before you send Cameron's stroller into the harbor."

"No, not until you promise me to stay the hell away from Jason," she said breathing fire. "I know you were kissing up to Mike, hoping he would be your way in, but surprise, it didn't work and you know why because Courtney and Jason are getting back together."

"Carly, look take your rants elsewhere," she said moving to tighten her grip on the stroller. When the blond grabbed her wrist and started to pull it up, Elizabeth went past worried and straight into terrified. "Carly, stop before you send Cam into the river, now just back away. I don't know what your problem is today, but I haven't seen Jason in a couple of weeks, now STOP!"

Sonny had seen his wife's limo down by the docks then seen her hightailing it this way and had been worried because he had heard that Sam was back in town but what he came onto was even worse as his wife seemed to be in the grip of some sort of fit and screaming at Elizabeth who was desperately trying to protect her child.

Not wanting to shout and make things worse, he just moved quickly down the stairs just as Carly started to shake the younger girl and before he ever managed to get to them, had sent Elizabeth into the water along with the stroller.

When his wife seemed to realize what she had done, Sonny saw her look around then start back up the stairs. Seeing him, she said, "I can-"

Pushing past her, Sonny took off his jacket and dived in without a word to Carly who was suddenly screaming his name. Seeing Elizabeth who seemed to be unconscious, Sonny freaked when he realized she didn't have the stroller anymore.

Diving deeper, he watched as the brunette seemed to float to the top. Going back up to the surface he could hear Carly screaming for him to get out of the water just as footsteps came rushing down from both directions. Seeing Alcazar and Jason, he took a deep breath and called out, "Elizabeth's son, is in the water in his stroller."

Both men dived in, not taking the time to remove even their shoes. Barely a minute later, Lorenzo came up with the stroller and raising it, shouted for Carly to help him but the blond stood there paralyzed in shock at Jason for ignoring her and shoving her out of the way.

Sonny had come up for yet another breath and saw that the dark haired man had the baby then saw Jason swimming over to Elizabeth. When he had pulled her out of the water, he reached out and helped Lorenzo undo the little boy while Sonny pulled himself out.

Moving closer, he saw that the dark-haired little boy was breathing and shouted for Carly to call 911 but the blond just reached out and said "No, look we have to get out of here, don't you get it, no one will know, we can say we saw Lorenzo talking to Elizabeth and with the way she is a slut, they will believe it is a lovers quarrel."

When she reached out and grabbed Jason's shoulder and shouted at the man to stop kissing the petite woman, Sonny just reached out and took her phone from her purse only for Carly to grab it and toss it into the water.

Hearing footsteps, they all turned and saw Courtney who said "Carly, why did you want to meet me down here?"

Getting the baby to check on him, Lorenzo stood and handed him to Sonny before walking over to the tall blond and grabbing her purse and ignoring her screeching turned his back and searched it before calling 911 on her phone.

"We need two ambulances and a police officer down at the Elm Street docks. A woman and her baby were just pushed into the Harbor by a crazy woman."

When Carly smiled at the gangster and said "Thank you for helping us." he just looked at her in disgust and said to Corinthos. "I won't help you cover this up. I knew she was losing it regarding Elizabeth Webber but to go this far and to almost killing a child is as bad as listening to her and your sister plot covering up Courtney trying to run her over to cause a miscarriage."

Jason hadn't looked up from where he was working frantically on Elizabeth who was breathing but had blood gushing from the top of her head but he heard every single word. Planning on talking to the South American later, he saw Sonny looking at Cam and then at Elizabeth while frowning.

Courtney just stood there, not sure what was going on. Hearing the rush of footsteps, she moved out of the way and when Mac and two other men arrived and asked what was going on, she shrugged and said "Calamity Jane strikes again. Elizabeth Webber was pushed by some nut job into the harbor with her baby."

Lucky rushed over to where Jason was standing to let the paramedics work on Elizabeth and then saw Cameron in Sonny's arms and tried to take the little boy who started fussing and kicking. "Here, give me the boy."

"We will take him." said the second team as they helped carry the baby and the bleeding woman up the steps. When Lucky frowned and tried to protest, Mac reminded him he couldn't be involved with the case since he had been dating Elizabeth.

A bit shocked at that since Jason had been keeping an eye on Elizabeth, trying to find a way to talk to her, to fix things and had seen the cadet being told to leave her alone, Jason just said "When I came Sonny was in the water and shouting. Alcazar and I dove in and he pulled out Elizabeth's son and I pulled Elizabeth to shore."

"Sonny, what did you and Carly see?"

"Carly saw nothing, she was the one who pushed Elizabeth in," said Sonny looking coldly at his wife. "I was coming down the stairs and saw her attacking Elizabeth. I saw Elizabeth trying to protect her child and my wife, shoving her into the water."

Carly just stood there, not believing that Sonny would tell them this. "What are you doing?"

"He is telling the truth, Mrs. Corinthos, you might want to try it sometime," said Lorenzo as he took the offered towel from the man standing there. "When I arrived, she was trying to stop Morgan from diving in, she wanted them to let Elizabeth die and blame me."

"Sonny, why would Carly do that, we know that Elizabeth had to have provoked her," said Courtney. "After all, we all know how jealous Elizabeth is of all of us."

Shaking his head, Jason picked up Elizabeth's purse and handed it to Mac before turning to Sonny and said: "I am going to the hospital."

"I will meet you later Mac, I will come down to the station but you should know, I am going to arrange for Dr. Gail Baldwin to examine my wife, clearly there is some sort of mental issue going on here." said Sonny looked at Carly in shock.

AT GH, Steven was paged to the ER where he saw a doctor checking over his nephew and heard shouts for Tony Jones to the exam room. Alan stopped him and gave him the news. "It looks like she was in the harbor and hit her head against the docks. She needs to be stitched up, but I wanted Tony to check on her because of what happened last year."

Nodding, Steven was handed Cameron just as Lucky Spencer arrived. "How is my girlfriend?" he asked the hub nurse. When she just blinked he said "Elizabeth Webber, how is she?"

"I can't release information regarding a patient without their express consent but I think I saw her brother over there." she said helpfully then saw his frown.

"Look, I am a cop, just tell me, I really need to know. And her kid, what happened to it?" Lucky didn't really care but he wanted to get back with Elizabeth, his life made so much more sense when she was fixing things for him.

"Lucky?" Turning he saw Emily and went over with a grin. "How is Elizabeth?"

"She just needed some stitches. Is it true that Carly pushed her in, while she had Cam with her?"

"Yeah, but that part is Elizabeth's fault. She shouldn't have been down by the docks with that stroller. When we have our own kids, I am going to have to insist she stop going down there, what if that had been our child?"

Blinking a bit, Emily thought back to what Elizabeth had told her earlier and asked: "When did you and Elizabeth start seeing each other again?"

"When she returned from Napa," he said with a smile. "I can just see us, years from now sitting in rockers on the front porch of Mama's house with our children around us, our own Luke and Laura and their children. She will be knitt-"

Staring at her old friend in disbelief, she said: "Excuse me Lucky; but where is Cameron in this picture?"

"Cameron who?" he asked blinking.

"I thought so," she said walking away without another word. Seeing Nik arriving, she was a bit shocked when he came over and asked for Mike Corbin. "Oh, I thought you were here for Elizabeth, uh, I think Mike refused to be brought here. I think he is at Mercy."

"Okay, I hope Elizabeth feels better. Tell her I said hello." With that, he left and Emily stood there with her jaw open in shock.

"Emily? Is everything okay?" asked the blond coming up behind her.

Turning to Jax, she said "I don't believe it, but yeah. For the first time in a while, yeah, well except for poor Elizabeth. Carly went nuts and shoved her and her son into the harbor."

Hearing heavy footsteps rushing in as Jax went into the ER area, Emily turned to see Jason. Seeing how frantic he was, she knew what she was going to do would hurt him but just toughened up. Grabbing his arm, she heard his request and ignored him until they had privacy.

"Why are you asking, to protect Carly or because you care about Elizabeth?"

Reeling back a bit at the anger he said in a hurt tone. "Elizabeth and Cameron. How is he?"

Sighing, she said, "I am sorry, but when I heard that it was Carly..."

She saw his face and felt bad but then told him. "Cameron is doing okay, mainly a little water got into him. He must have been asleep and whoever got him out that quickly kept him safe. As for Elizabeth. She had water in her lungs, she needed stitches where her head hit the docks and they want Tony Jones to check her out."

"Oh god." Jason felt his mind rush to a hundred different scenarios, none of which were good but Emily said: "It is just as a precaution."

Nodding, he asked, "Will you let me in to see her?"

"No, but only because Elizabeth asked me not to before," she said with a regretful smile. "Jason, why did Carly do this?"

"I don't know. Mac had her taken to the station and Sonny called Gail to talk to her since she was raving the entire time." When Jason thought back to Carly grabbing his arm, trying to stop him from helping get Elizabeth and her son out of the water then tossing her phone to prevent them from getting her help... he couldn't help it. No matter that Sonny was convinced it was something mental, that she could even think of doing that to Elizabeth let alone an innocent child...

Then his mind went to what Lorenzo Alcazar had said regarding the hit and run. That Courtney and Carly had thought Elizabeth was pregnant at the time, that the accident hadn't been an accident. Leaning against the wall, he looked at his sister, not really seeing her as he tried to figure out when his life had gotten so screwed up.

Was it when he returned the last time? When had he seen Carly coming down the stairs in Sonny's shirt after he had decided to tell her the truth and she blew his friendship with the man to bits? When he had slept with Courtney in a bid to make the pain go away?

"Morgan, how is she?" asked the dark-haired man.

Jason stood a bit then said to Alcazar, "Thank you for your help but why do you care?"

"I have seen that woman around the hospital. I knew her from when Ric hurt her, when he drugged her, then when your wife deliberately hit her with her car then lied about it. This is just the latest incident and I can't help it. I look at her and see an innocent caught by others selfishness."

"When we get a moment, Sonny, you and I need to sit down. Regarding that car accident. We were told it was just that, an accident."

"Your wife-"

"My ex-wife," he said firmly.

"Your ex-wife ran down the woman you have a very deep past with and you believed her when she said it was an accident? No wonder they say love is blind, in your case Morgan, it is deaf and dumb too." he sneered walking away.

Then deciding that he didn't like the sudden closeness between the DA and the woman who killed his brother, he tossed up another nugget of information. "You might want to ask yourself this... why after Lansing went to such effort to blame you for the accident was he so cozy with his kidnapping victims who claim to loathe him. They were meeting in secret around January of this year."

Gail sedated Carly then went to see Mac and Sonny Corinthos. Shaking her head, she said "She isn't sick, Sonny. Just furious at getting caught. I have never seen anything like it. From her overwhelming hatred for Elizabeth's son to her blaming Elizabeth for Mike Corbin's heart attack. She seems to feel that Elizabeth is the cause of all her problems in life."

"Wait, but you said she wasn't sick." protested Mac.

"She isn't. She has no known psychological disorder other than being obsessed. I can work with her, but it isn't an excuse or anything that will allow her to skate on what she did." said the woman frowning.

Once they left, Mac sat down and thought about what he had heard from the blond. Then made a call. "I want the file regarding Elizabeth Webber's hit and run on my desk when I return. DO NOT let DA Lansing know about this request. I also want Carly Corinthos case file pulled. I will be back in two hours."

At the hospital, Sonny had stopped Emily and asked where Jason was. Arriving in the chapel, he said "I have always thought of this as a peaceful place. How are she and her son?"

"Stitches and they want to keep her on oxygen for the night. Cameron is doing well. Her brother is taking him home." he said without looking up. "Don't ask, I won't help her."

"I am not going to ask. I made the mistake last time I pushed you to cover for Courtney. Especially since Carly let it slip that she knew-"

"That Courtney hit Elizabeth on purpose. I remember being suspicious, but thinking that I had to be wrong. That no one would do that, not to Elizabeth. Then we learned about the drugs and it all seemed to fit, but now... I just... I wonder... I think Elizabeth knew, I would bet she knew."

"I just don't get it..." he said bleakly. "Is this our fault?"

"Yeah," said Jason. "We let them think they have the right to run roughshod over anyone and anything they want as long as it kept them out of our hair. I just wanted peace from the voices in my head... now. ..."

"I know, man. I know. Have you tried to talk to Elizabeth?"

With a melancholy chuckle, Jason told him what he had done regarding Elizabeth then told him her reaction. When he saw the white under Sonny's dark tan, he said "Yeah, I know... I got drunk for two days afterward. Now, I just... I can only watch and protect from afar. She has it all wrong but Sonny... I get why she would think that. We have..."

Then Jason told him what Alcazar had said and he saw Sonny tense before saying "Set up the meeting."

Standing, Sonny said "I have to head home to the boys... but I have no idea other than letting Carly deal with this. I will provide an attorney but that is all. I thought I saw Sam slinking around earlier."

"Yeah, she has been seen by Francis talking to Lansing. I want to know why but I think we proceed with your plan. First, though... I have to talk to Elizabeth..." he said bleakly. "I can't let her think that it is the truth... if the rest of the world..."

"I agree. You can't lose whatever little you have left... I will have Bernie do some checking around regarding Ric and what he was up to at that time."

Jason walked down the hallway and saw Steven Webber tossing Lansing out of Elizabeth's hospital room, then saw Lucky lurking down the hallway. Knowing he stood no chance of talking to her at this time, he left and went to arrange a meeting, one he didn't think he was going to like what he was told.

TBC