Chapter Four.

Jeff listened to his messages as he got off the jet, telling Audrey quietly what was going on, he suggested that she take the boys to her house for the night, "I am going to see what I can do."

"I just don't know what to say." she kept repeating as she drove home in the rental car and was met by Patrick Drake whose daughter wanted to see her friends. As they all greeted one another, he said "I missed it all, I had a doctors appointment for Emma but it sounds like those two girls have been behind a lot of the trouble."

The kids were on the playset in her backyard as Audrey asked. "They tried to kill Jake, it was Alexis' girls? Wow, I thought it was Sam."

"When we learned about the computer hacking, I thought it was Spin on Sam's orders." he said. "She did set them up to be a target for the Russians and did all of that when Jake was a baby. She ran him over but the rest, no, that was her sisters."

"And Kristina is the mother of this little boy?" she asked astounded at that news.

Carly was listening to her son, shocked to be told that Kristina in her obsession with Jason, had poisoned her. "Really, with Alexis for a mother, what can you expect?"

"Mom, is that all you can say?" asked Michael annoyed with her. "She was sick, and look at dad, he ignored her for years, even I know that he favored me. I think that there is more than one person to blame for all of this. As far as I can tell the only innocents in this mess is Elizabeth Webber and her son."

"Yes, but thanks to Kristina your sister is alive." she said distractedly. "I guess I have to be thankful to her for that."

"Mom were you listening to anything I had to say?" he asked annoyed with her. "Seriously, did you? Jake's kidney isn't in Joss, and even if it had been, you think that it is okay that Molly and she tried to murder an innocent little boy because it could have saved Joss. What about poor Uncle Jason that was his little boy too."

"Of course it was a tragedy, but some good came out of it too." she said making Michael think that maybe Alexis wasn't the only delusional mother of Sonny's children.

"No, there was no good in this situation. I mean, Kristina took drugs and substituted her eggs for Sam's and had another psycho's baby. Daniel is screwed." said Michael with the honestly of a teenager. "I wonder what happens now."

"I am sure that Alexis will get custody, anyhow at least your uncle will stop feeling guilty and do what is right about that kid." she said already seeing Jason moving in and becoming a full time father to her kids. Frowning as she considered having Morgan use his middle name for his first when Jason adopted him, she stopped when she heard what Michael was saying.

"Wait, Elizabeth was here for this, and is pregnant?" she asked almost giddy with the knowledge that the fertile whore was out of Jason's life for good this time.

"Yes, she was talking to her brother and Uncle Jason when I came into the emergency room. Uncle Jason carried her into a treatment room and then when that doctor that replaced Kelly Lee came in, he went upstairs with her." he said.

"Oh, I have to go check on him." she said and hurried off to do just that.

Dr. Meadows hurried into to the room and saw her former and now current patient waiting. "Hello Elizabeth, I was requested to come in and check on you. How are you feeling?"

"A little woozy." she said "But not from the excitement but they refuse to believe that. I just didn't eat."

Looking at his watch, Jason said "I was bringing you food twenty minutes ago. I am sorry."

"Don't be, you aren't responsible for this, JASON." she said trying reassure him. "From what we heard, this has been there for a very long time."

"Well why don't we lay back and I will hook up the ultrasound machine." said Karen Meadows briskly.

"Do you want me to go?" Jason asked looking at Elizabeth who nodded, then seeing his slumped shoulders, stopped him frowning for a moment.

"Wait, Jason just hold off, we can go to Kelly's after I am done, it should be just as quick. I am so hungry I am not sure I can wait for the food to be brought back to me." she said as Karen began to show them their child. If today taught her nothing else, keeping a father away from his child wasn't good. What Alexis had started out of anger for the way that Sonny treated her after they had slept together had ended today with the death of a very young and confused girl.

Confused but keeping his mouth shut, he saw the machine and heard the sound of the heartbeat. "Wow."

"Yes, it looks like everything is working fine, do you want me to print out a picture?" she asked and was quickly told yes. Handing it to Elizabeth, she said "I am going to recommend you take it easy for a couple of days, but your blood pressure is fine and I suggest regular meals."

"I will take care of her." Jason vowed as he held Elizabeth's hand, his eyes never leaving the photo she was holding so closely and staring at. "Elizabeth, when are the boys arriving?"

"At five thirty." she replied then looked at the clock and said "Oh dear, they must already be here. Would you go find Steven for me?"

Leaving and heading to the hub, Jason saw Carly, asked her how Michael was but stopped her before she answered just as Steven and another man came up to him. "Elizabeth is looking for you. The boys were due in at five thirty."

"I know, this is my father, Jeff Webber, he brought them to Gram's house and she is keeping them until we get Elizabeth cleared." Steven explained and took pleasure in the way that Carly was glaring at them and trying to get Jason's attention but he was clearly obvious to her restlessness.

"Dr. Meadows said she is going to be fine, but wants her to make sure she is eating right and that she takes it easy for a few days." He had every intention of being sure to be there to help her with that. He got what he had done had hurt, but he also knew that to fix things, he couldn't back away like he normally would have so as to not upset Elizabeth.

"She is back here in Port Charles, I am not sure how she is going to do that, Jason." said Steven who glared at Carly who kept opening her mouth to speak then shutting up as he glared at her. "Either way, I will go check on her and then go spend some time with the boys. I haven't really seen much of Jake since he woke up."

"Jake?" asked the blond stunned as she looked at the short doctor, certain she had to have heart wrong.

"My grandson, he has been a coma for quite a while but he is doing fine." replied Jeff as he looked at Jason Morgan and honestly didn't see his own parents in him but he did see both his younger grandsons.

Carly saw the taller man walk down the hall then said "So, are you going to be granted time with your son, now that Saint Elizabeth has deigned to bring him home."

"Carly, enough." he said cutting her diatribe off. "Elizabeth and my children are none of your business. Why don't you worry about your own; their half sister just died and their cousin was the one firing the weapon, they might need a little more than just their nanny to help them through this. Let us take care of ours."

"Yours, you only have one Jason, Jake and I will do whatever you want, hire you an attorney, testify but you have to stop her from leaving again with your little boy. Get custody and I will help you raise him, we can help each other. Joss, Jake and Morgan all need us."

"Jake doesn't need you." he said as plainly as possible. "He has a mother, Elizabeth. And my other son, Aidan, he doesn't need you either and eventually I will wear Elizabeth down and adopt Cam, none of my sons will need you. And if this latest child is a boy or if she is a girl, she won't need you either."

"Jason, don't be a fool, don't let her drag you back in and have you stuck raising her latest child. Just because the father doesn't want any part of it, just like Lucky with Aidan and well we all know what happened to Zander." she said with a smirk. Jason couldn't help thinking what about AJ, what about Sonny and what he had done today to his own daughter and what about Jax, well maybe not Jax, Sonny had set the man up and he had had no choice but to flee.

"Carly, you aren't listening. Jake and Aidan are mine biologically. This newest child is mine too. Elizabeth and I created him on Jake's fifth birthday." he said as plainly as he could.

"No, that can't be true, you were married to Sam. You wouldn't cheat on your wife, its not in your nature." she said her back turned and not seeing as Elizabeth came their way with her father and brother.

"Carly when it comes to Elizabeth, that isn't true. I just don't consider it cheating. Elizabeth and I should have been together years ago and now I am going for what should have been my family all along and anyone in the way of that happiness, will be out of my life. Anyone Carly, including you. So don't come up with a plan, don't do anything but get over this idea that I want a life with you. I don't, you are or rather were my friend but clearly if you can't let this go, I have to cut you out of my life. I have had enough of insane manipulative people to last me a lifetime."

"Then why are you taking up with that bitch." she snapped.

"Well if Elizabeth wants to start manipulating me, I would be happy but she doesn't do that, that is you Carly. I am done letting my fears and those around me dictate my life." he said then walked around her to where Elizabeth was quietly talking to Epiphany who had walked up and hugged her tightly.

"Are you ready to eat?" he asked looking into her eyes, letting her see the worry that normally he took such pains to hide. He was getting that he could no longer hide things, that with Elizabeth all it did was cause misery.

Hearing her stomach growling, he along with the other three laughed when she flushed and said "Yes, and clearly the baby is too."

"Well lets go get the boys and taken them too." he said then asked Steven and Jeff to join them.

"I can't, I am on duty until nine now. Turns out the doctor relieving me just called in that he quit, told Monica that he doesn't want to work at a hospital with this much danger." Steven could understand where the man was coming from, he couldn't believe all that had happened today himself. All this because a deluded nineteen year old was convinced she was in love with her father's former friend.

Piph just shook her head and was heard muttering about crazy ass kids as she walked to the hub and saw Carly standing there, staring. "Take a picture it will last longer. If you have no reason to be here, leave, Mrs. Jacks. Better yet go track down that husband of yours before he flees again. Not that I blame him, if I was married to you I would fake my death too."

Jason was told that Patrick would drive the boys over to the diner on his way home, when Elizabeth's stomach rumbled again as they were speaking to Audrey. Arriving at the small diner, he looked in and said "I forgot that Steve's crazy mom works here."

Seeing Jeff Webber seem to pale, he realized he had insulted the man's ex-wife but then heard him saying. "I guess I should make sure that our food isn't poisoned. What kind of person hires a woman who puts drugs into others drinks to work at a diner?"

"Luke Spencer." said Jason shaking his head then looking inside said "She looks to be leaving."

"Good, good." The trio ducked out of sight and watched as the crazy woman walked past them and then they hurried inside and got a table. Jeff went to the counter after they ordered, clearly Jason and Elizabeth had something that needed to be talked about.

"I should tell you, I uh, Daniel, his last name, its Moore, like my mother's and like what Francos would have been. I have been looking for Betty Franks, because I honestly didn't know what to do with the little boy. I couldn't bond with him, not after..."

"The rape?" she asked softly getting that if he was trying she had to as well.

"No, I was able to deal with that, and even now finding out that it hadn't happened, or at least not the way it was thought to. Its he is Sam's son, you were so right, Elizabeth. I-what I did to Jake, to you, to Cam. There is no excuse and I had divorced Sam when she collapsed. I wasn't sure what to do, I kept trying but every time I looked at him, I saw her and it felt wrong."

"He is an innocent, Jason." she reminded him then confessed. "Jason, its one of the reasons we are in this mess because I honestly get how you feel. I have always felt this sick sense of wrongness about the baby, and I wanted to believe that it was because she was his mother, but that isn't it, not completely."

Reaching out for his hands, she said "I have several really deep seated issues regarding my childhood, I was second best, at least that was what I thought but spending time with my dad, I get it. He loves us kids, but truly he needs a mother not a wife. He forgets appointments other than work and one week while Gram's was visiting Gail two months ago, he put a load of clothes in the washer and forgot about them. They stayed there until I stopped over and realized that something smelled like mildew. When I asked him, he said Oh, that he forgot."

"Is there something wrong with him?" he asked concerned considering the man spent so much time with their children.

"Only that all his thoughts are on his job and then our children." she said. "Last week, he gave Cam something that Cam said he wanted that first week we were there, but I told him maybe at a later date. In truth, I wasn't sure how to locate one. But Dad has been checking all this time, until he found one. He just can't handle normal domestic issues, its why he has such bad luck with wives."

"Monica, Heather, any other one besides your mom?" he asked.

"Two close calls and from what grams and he have talked about several he wished to forget." she said.

"That I understand." he said in a heartfelt tone.

"Me too." she replied just as trouble entered the diner.

"Elizabeth." said the blond entered with her husband as she nodded and stiffly went to the counter while he went to the rest room. Taking out her phone, Lulu called her family. "You two have to get back here, Elizabeth is at the diner, she is with Jason."

"Princess, leave it alone." said Luke as he hung up and without Lucky noticing, turned off his cell phone as they caught a flight to Berlin, Germany.

Hanging up, gritting her teeth, she saw the boys rushing in with Patrick Drake and his daughter and greeting their mom. Seeing Elizabeth was pregnant, she was walking up to demand to know who the father was when her arm was grabbed and she was stopped.

"Let go of my wife." said the short cop as he exited the bathroom.

"She is about to get herself into real trouble, you might want to get a hold of her. Aren't you a cop?" asked Jeff recalling what Elizabeth had told her about the Spencers and their spouses. "Because she was just on the phone with Lucky Spencer a wanted fugitive. I suggest you find out from her where he is."

"Lulu doesn't know she swore to me that she has had no contact and I already told you to let go of her arm." he said glaring at the taller man while with a sinking heart realized that his wife had lied to him, yet again. Making a mental note to call Mac and have him put a trace on Lulu's phone, he admitted to himself that unlike what he had hoped, he was going to end up divorced soon.

"My daughter is pregnant and thanks to Kristina Davis today has already been in danger once, I am not about to let Lucky Spencer's sister hurt Elizabeth. And you should know, I will be calling the police commissioner and letting him know that your wife is in contact with a federal escaped criminal. Maybe I will call an old contact with the FBI. Yes, I think that is what I will do." he said letting go of the blond's arm and waiting, knowing she would not behave.

Sure enough, Lulu made a beeline for the three adults and children. Hearing Aidan calling Jason dad, had her snapping. "That hasn't been proven yet, don't call him that."

When the little boy pulled back, Lulu stopped, shocked at the fear in his eyes and then looked at the other two, and had a shock of her own as she realized the one little boy was Jake. "You lied, you faked his death, how could you do that to my dad?"

"Dante, I suggest you tell your wife what your sisters did." Jason said as the man approached and pulled her off. Telling her quickly all that had been said, he saw her anger at his sister and said "She was sick, Lulu. She needed help and no one noticed. She paid, she is dead."

"What about Molly?" she asked now calmed down and shocked as he with a flat affect told her the rest. "Oh god, Dante you should have told me."

"I have been trying to since we got here but it was more important to you to stick your nose in Elizabeth Webber's business. Get over it, Morgan and she have two sons and another kid on the way. Grow up, Lulu, stop trying to fix things for your brother. If he can't stand on his own two feet, then let him fall. That is the problem in this town, too many people sticking their noses in other people's business. If you want our marriage to succeed you have to make a choice."

Hurt at the accusation but following him out the door, Lulu looked back as Jason held Jake and Aidan while talking to Cam and let it go, her brother wasn't going to get his happy ending. Instead clearly Jason Morgan was going to and she wasn't stupid enough to go up against him.

Edward hung up the phone, shocked to find out he was correct in his guess. His contact having run the samples after the shop had closed so he had waited to call at midnight Scott Baldwin had been Franco's father. Now what to do with that information. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he saw his grandson entering. "I would have thought you would have spent the night with them."

"I am meeting them tomorrow morning. Did you hear what happened today?"

"Monica filled me in. It does make me wonder about several things." he said then sadly asked. "Jason, you have to do something, one way or another about that little boy. I know that you feel responsible for him, even if you don't love him but this isn't good for him."

"I know." he said bleakly. "I came home an hour ago, I was upstairs, holding him and it was no different than holding Morgan or Emma when they were babies. He needs a family that will love him and I god knows no matter how much I try don't."

"Jason, you have been through so much and a lot of it created by the Davis family and by Franco. You have barely processed that he was your brother, have you?" he asked.

"Its not that, I wish it was. There is something wrong with me, I have always been able to work past this before. I mean, I did for Michael, for Sam's child with Sonny. Even at one time liked Molly in spite of her being Ric's daughter. But I just can't and I don't think that it will ever change."

"What does Elizabeth say?" he asked wondering if the reason his grandson couldn't move past was the young woman he was in love with.

"She wants to come over tomorrow bring the boys and met him. My first instinct was to say no. I honestly didn't want my sons to meet him with me raising him when I haven't been able to be a father to them yet." he said bleakly.

Elizabeth and the boys entered the mansion, she found it hard to not snap at Monica when the woman had said hello but kept it civil as Jake and Cameron hugged Jason and asked to see this baby they had heard about.

Leading them upstairs, he dismissed the nanny, asking her to come back in an hour and watched as Elizabeth lifted the little boy and said "Oh, you poor sweet child."

Holding him as she sat in the rocking chair, she showed him to her sons and they just did what little boys do and asked questions. "Why is he so small?"

"Jake, you and Aidan were that small too." said Cam as the wise older brother.

"Was not." retorted the middle boy while Aidan just wrinkled his nose at Daniel and played with the car they had brought with him.

"Why doesn't he have any hair?" asked Cam. "I had hair, you showed me the pictures. Jake had hair, a lot of it and so did Aidan. Remember it was blond then it went dark."

"Yes, they did and you did but not all babies have hair." said Elizabeth who saw he needed his diaper changed and went to the changing table with Aidan following.

"Stinky. He stinky." said Aidan.

"Yes, but so do you sometimes." she replied and saw his face. "Do you need a diaper change?"

With an emphatic shake of his head, Aidan went back to his car while Jason joined Elizabeth as she finished then sat back down and rocked the baby. "Jason, we have to discuss where we go from here with the boys. I was thinking about how you will be able to keep them overnight here."

"Okay." he said not sure what to say, worried she might change her mind.

There was not much else said by the adults as the boys played. When the nanny returned, Elizabeth handed Daniel over and kissed him quietly on the forehead then watched as Jason didn't but gathered the three boys. "Jason, a moment please."

Taking him aside, she asked. "Have you ever just thought about taking him with us. Does he ever leave this room?"

"The nanny takes him for a walk twice a day and Tracy sometimes takes him downstairs." he said then seeing her expression admitted that he hadn't.

"Lets bring him with us, please?" she asked then helped the nanny gather what was required as they took Jake to the hospital. Seeing Patrick as she pushed the stroller, she said Jake, Dr. Patrick needs to run some tests."

"Okay but he had better not take out that brain." he said glaring at the man chuckling.

"Jake, I promise the brain will stay in the head." Elizabeth explained what had happened and Jake's fear to Jason who chuckled in spite of agreeing with his son that it more than likely was scary.

Hearing her name being called, Elizabeth greeted several of her co-workers who gave a glance at the baby in the stroller but otherwise were soon greeting her two children and asking if it was true that Jake was back.

"Yup, a crazy girl tried to make my brother go a way, she can't do that any more." Cam said.

Carly had had a run in with Jax and wasn't thrilled with his threats. She had been looking for Jason but had been refused admittance to the Quartermaine house and he hadn't been answering his phone as she ran into Alexis. "You have to get Jax under control, I am not letting him take my children away."

"Carly, I have bigger issues at the moment." she said shaking her head at the other woman's audacity. Seeing Jax approaching and with Ric she said "Why don't you try to compromise, Carly. Try something new for once in your life."

Ric reached out and pulled Alexis into his arms, embracing her as he dealt with his grief knowing that she had to be destroyed. "I am so sorry, I should have never left town."

"This was going on even before you left. This is all my fault, I went looking for my daughter and instead brought a monster into our home." she said crying as she continued. "Kristina needed help and I never saw it. Did you hear, did you hear what she did, about the baby?"

"Yes. I wish I could say that I understood but I don't. I know Morgan, and can truthfully say he didn't give her any encouragement in this obsession. I just don't get it, Alexis. I truly don't and then there is Molly, trying to kill Elizabeth, almost killing her son. Why?" he pleaded with her to find some answer for him.

"S-she blames Elizabeth for our marriage ending, Ric. I never told the girls the truth about Sam, I couldn't but my silence, it created this. Its all my fault." she whispered to him as she continued. "Mac said that there is so much more. He has an expert who has found event after event where Molly created problems."

"This is my fault. This is because of my genes. Look at Sonny and I, what and who we are." he said miserable at the thought his daughter was following in his footsteps.

"It could also be the Cassadine blood." she said wiping her tears away. Everything in her wished that she could blame Jason, could blame Elizabeth Webber, but they simply weren't at fault. Sonny was, she was, Ric was. Looking back she can't believe she didn't think about inherited traits before actually bringing children into this world.

"What are we going to do about Molly. She is sure to be convicted and go to jail."

"Maybe not." said Mac entering the area and looking at the four people gathered. "They ran some tests on her, Ewan called me and it looks like she has a massive growth on her brain. It might explain some of what she did."

"Even if she gets well, she will have to live with the knowledge that she killed her sister." said Ric, "With the knowledge of what she did to innocents."

Mac didn't tell them that Ewan said it was inoperable, that Patrick Drake had looked at the test results and had agreed. He left it to the medical professionals and went to find Morgan, hating to have to deliver the news but the DA was insisting on it being done immediately.

Finding him as Patrick must have given them good news regarding Jake, he drew the other man off and said "Jason, the DA had a call from Betty Franks regarding Franco's son. With your divorce having happened, you weren't legally the baby's father. Sam's will while it might have been accepted when she was the baby's mother, with the latest news. She is asking for custody of her grandson."

"Mac, she raised Franco." he pointed out.

"That might be a concern but she wasn't a bad parent, there is no proof that she was. Not even a hint. We have no idea and without a body have no proof that he wasn't biologically having issues. The simple truth is that once the tests prove that Kristina is Daniel's mother, she should win custody."

Walking back to Elizabeth, holding her close as he whispered what Mac had told him she frowned then said "We should meet her. Jason, she might back down if she thinks that Daniel will be loved and in a good home. We have to step up. Get past the mess and help this little boy."

He wasn't sure what to do, there was Alexis who had just lost her daughter, she would be in their lives forever and then there was the unknown father of his brother. Thinking on it, he called Edward who gave him the news. "Elizabeth, Franco's father, it was Scott Baldwin."

"Oh dear." she said her mind on what she knew about that particular man.

"Alexis and he will make this child's life a living hell." he said bleakly. "I honestly don't know what to do."

Alexis and Ric, steeled themselves and went looking for Elizabeth and Jason who they knew were in the hospital. Seeing the two of them, with the children, gave Ric heartburn but he kept his opinion to himself. "May we speak to the two of you?"

Epiphany saw what was going on and distracted the three active little boys with the small pieces of candy she kept in her pocket and asked them about Pittsburgh while their parents dealt with the Lansings.

"I am not sure sorry will ever be enough." said Alexis, biting her lips at having to apologize to anyone, but looking back, she had to face that since finding out she was pregnant with Kristina she had become everything she had ever despised. "But I am sorry for what all three of my children put you through."

"I apologize for what Kristina and Molly did as well." said Ric, shocked to realize that saying that hadn't hurt him. "There is nothing we can say that will ever make up for what those two girls did. How we could have possibly missed it, that they had become our greatest fears, is no excuse."

"I have nothing." said Elizabeth. "I can barely comprehend that they tried to kill my son, and can't even begin to imagine what would have them believing that that was acceptable."

"Jason, you should know, I understand that you care for Daniel and that I am obviously one of the last people you want to hear this from, but I think that it might be for the best if I take charge of my grandson." she said then continued on. "I know you more than likely disagree but simply put, he is my grandson, my flesh and blood and if anyone understands what he can become it is me. You have three children and clearly another on the way. Its time to let go of this promise made to Sam that is stopping you from doing what is right."

"It wasn't a promise to Sam." he admitted. "It was to Elizabeth. And she is right, I have to overcome my fears and help this little boy. I am not sure where we all go from here. You should know. Franco is the son of Scott Baldwin. He might become an issue if you do this."

"Unless there is money someplace I don't know about, I don't expect Baldwin to care." she said.

"And Betty Franks, she is Daniel's grandmother too." said Elizabeth.

Elizabeth and Jason left the hospital as they saw Patrick giving Ric and Alexis the bad news regarding Molly's medical condition. "What do we do?"

"I am not sure but we have to talk things through. Jason, there is no way that the judge will let us raise that little boy unless we are a couple and more than likely married. Then he could look at what Sam did and still refuse to grant us custody." she said.

Holding onto her hand as they went to the car with the boys, Jason had to laugh when Cam pouted and said "I wanted to claim shot gun. Grandpa lets me sit up front."

"Grandpa's car has the passenger side air bag shut off, mom doesn't." said Elizabeth. "And his car only has front seats, young man."

"But I don't want to sit in back with the babies." he pouted and stuck his tongue out at his brothers then with a smile said. "Wait, you said we were going to the park."

"We are, just not the one across the street and not if you don't start behaving." she said. "Now apologize for sticking your tongue out and then we will be having a little talk later, Cameron."

Not happy but getting into the car, he scrambled into the back seat and considered kicking Jake's seat but saw the look on his mom's face and stopped. At the park, he was held back as Jason put Daniel in the stroller and kept a close eye on Jake and Aidan.

"Cam, we need to talk." Elizabeth said then asked him what was going on.

"We always go to the baby park, why can't I go to the big kids part." he said not wanting to be stuck on the baby equipment again, just because he had little brothers.

"I get that it seems like we are always at the little kids part of the park, Cam but you are just getting to be age for the bigger equipment. I know that it is difficult when Mommy is the only one here and you have to play on this equipment but we also go just the two of us and I don't do that with Jake and Aidan, do I?"

"No." he said with a heavy sigh knowing that he was wrong.

"Now why don't we go play and maybe when the boys have slowed down some, Jason will be willing to take you over, but you have to wait, Cam." she cautioned. Seeing him agreeing, she watched as he went to play with the others. She knew he should be on the bigger equipment, but at the same time she found herself worrying when he was if she had the other boys with her, in case he got hurt.

Explaining to Jason, getting his agreement to take Cam to the other side later, she sat down and lifted Daniel out of the stroller and carried him over to the swing. "Do you want to feel the wind, little one."

Jason watched as Jake ran to the middle sized plastic slide and over Aidan who was trying to follow him but he stopped the toddler and moved him to the smaller slide and laughed when he closed his eyes and raised his head as he came down, his hair feeling the small breeze created.

Watching Cam as he worked his way up the small climbing wall then slide down the attached slide then went to the monkey bars, he felt a sense of awe that Elizabeth normally did this by herself as he found himself trying to keep a close eye on all three children.

Hearing laughter, he turned to see that Cam had joined Elizabeth and was trying to push her on the swing. Huffing and puffing, he said "Mommy you weight too much. I can't get you to move."

"That is fine, Cam, I can do it myself." she said showing him how and watching as he did it next to her, pumping his legs back and forth until he was red in the face. "Daniel, I think that we have to get off the swing."

Feeling the little boy wrap his fingers in her hair, she lifted him to her shoulder and looked around. Seeing Jason watching them while Jake and Aidan played in front of him, she smiled and saw his shy smile coming back at her.

"Elizabeth?" Turning to see Anna Devane, she was quickly told. "Patrick told me, about Jake and what Robin did. I am so happy for you."

"Thank you, do you want to meet my son?" she asked only to be crowded by the three boys as they greeted the woman and asked if she had Emma with her.

"No, Emma is at school today." she said then asked if they had school.

"We do, but mommy brought us home so that Dr. Patrick can look at Jake's brain." said Cam. "Dr Patrick said that all the gooey bits are where they are supposed to be."

"He won't take it out he promised." said Jake as he looked at the older woman.

"I-" she had no answer for that statement but saw his parents smiling and knew that there had to be a story there. "Mac told me everything. I can only imagine what you have been going through."

After spending some time watching the small family, Anna saw them loading up the kids and couldn't help feeling that they were finally getting their act together.

Three Months later.

Elizabeth had moved home but not into her small cottage. Instead she had agreed with Jason's suggestion of a slightly bigger house. They had found a five bedroom American four square in the same neighborhood. It was larger and more expensive but they knew that they had room to grow.

While Monica and she had finally come to an understanding, Carly had not let up on her belief that Elizabeth and he were a mistake. As a result, she was on the outside looking in in more than one way. Alexis had had a meltdown when Molly had died from her inoperable brain tumor. Jax and Ric had stood by her but only one man had laid claim to her heart.

Jax had talked her into moving to Australia and she had tried to convinced the courts that Daniel should live with her. Elizabeth and Jason had been unsure of what to feel because they had been growing closer to the young infant and had come to believe that they would love him as much as their other sons. The court hadn't agree though and to prevent Scott from being a problem, no one had ever told about his son let alone his grandson.

But in the end, it was someone else who got custody, someone no one has expected to even get involved. Dante Falconari had ended up a divorced single dad of his own nephew after convincing the judge that he had escaped the Corinthos family mental health problems. He had then sat down and had a long talk with Jason, Elizabeth and Alexis, before moving away so that Daniel wouldn't grow up here where his family had made so many mistake. He was slowly easing the little boy into being called by a new name, one that wouldn't carry any bad memories.

Ric had stayed in town for a bit, then finding it too hard to see Elizabeth happy with Jason, had gone to see Sonny and after a vicious argument regarding the death of Kristina and furious about Sonny's demanded regarding his grandson, had ratted his location out to the police and the man was quickly arrested and extradited to New Jersey where he was found guilty of the death of the McBain woman.

"Elizabeth, are you ready?" asked Jason as he took his six month pregnant wife out on a date. They had married to make sure that the children felt loved and settled but were dating each other. Slowly but surely they were rebuilding their trust and letting go of the lock on their hearts that was protecting them from hurt by each other. For now, Jason was sleeping in the guest room, and he would until after the birth of their child. Then, the couple had made plans to recommit to one another phsycially.

"Just about." she said frowning at her belly. Their little girl was making her presence known tonight. "Emily, you need to settle down."

When in response her daughter kicked her from her insides, Elizabeth just made a promise of more food then picking up her coat, joined him in the hallway decorated for Christmas. Reminding her dad that they had left the numbers for the restaurant on the coffee table in the den, they were just about to eat dessert when Jason's cell phone rang. "Jason, Elizabeth and you need to come to GH. No one is hurt but please get here right away."

Telling her what Audrey had said, they quickly paid the bill and drove to the hospital. Entering in the new doors that were built to change the entrance from where Molly had killed her sister, instead they came in on the other side of the room.

Seeing John Zachara talking to her brother was a surprise but not as much as what happened next. "Emily?"

Hearing someone coughing, Elizabeth still couldn't take her eyes off her late best friend standing in front of her alive. What was even more shocking was the voice behind her saying. "And what are we, chicken liver."

Shocked, Elizabeth whirled around as quickly as she could at seven months pregnant and said joyfully. "Robin... and Georgie? Wait, how? Who? What? Where have you been?"

"The only thing you have missed is why?" asked a laughing Georgie as Robin hugged her friend and said that Johnny had told her about Jake being awake. "I am so glad that the protocol worked."

When the families had all been reunited and tears had fallen. The three woman sat down and Emily began speaking. "Valentine Cassadine. He took me because somehow he got he idea I was pregnant and since legally Spencer can't be the heir, he wanted to prevent Nik and I from marrying."

"Oh god, Nik." Elizabeth said a guilty look on her face.

"Don't Elizabeth, don't feel guilty." she said blushing then telling her the rest. "You are going to be so mad at me, I fell in love with my kidnapper, again. Unlike that time, however, Valentine is the real deal but before we could come back and deal with things, Helena grabbed me."

"Are you serious?" she asked.

"Yes and I escaped but ended up recaptured several months later in St. Petersburg with no memories of who I was, that was when I learned that Jason and you had screwed things up so badly. Valentine tried to rescue me but I ended up in a coma. I woke up three days ago." she said looking around and finding the taller quiet man in the corner. "He heard about Robin's death and had known about Lucky's fake death. He went looking but..."

"Helena had grabbed me, wanting me to awaken Emily because she had heard that Valentine was going to the families trying to have himself declared the heir so he could deal with her unlike Nik who couldn't."

"What about Georgie?" asked Maxie as she looked at her very quiet sister. "How did she end up in this mess."

"That is not a pretty story." she said with a heavy sigh. "I am not sure what I saw or heard but I ended up in New Zealand. And two weeks ago, Johnny showed up there. He kept saying he knew me but I had no idea how."

"I kept having images of her, but with a man I now know was this Spinelli kid." he said. "We have no idea what his part in this was, but he wasn't the one who kidnapped her."

"Who was?" demanded Maxie.

"I don't know his name but his face I do." Georgie said. "I am sure I know him, I have seen myself talking to him in my dreams and that I don't like him."

"Can you draw his picture?" asked Mac.

"Georgie, tell them the description." said Robin looking at Elizabeth with concern as Georgie described the man physically then said to her sister that she must have been dating him at one point because Georgie recalled Maxie being pregnant.

"Oh god, Lucky? Lucky did this to you." she asked while scrolling through her smart phone and finding his picture. "Him, is this the guy."

"No." said Georgie frowning then added "He was taller and better looking. He was working with a man with an accent, English kind of."

Taking out a picture of Cooper that she had put on there as another example of her mistakes, she flinched when Georgie said that was him, then Mac had a mug shot of Jerry Jacks and she quickly confirmed that he was the boss. "He was talking to some guy, a real nutso with paint on his hands."

"Franco." said Jason.

"I don't know, all I do know is that I woke up in a hospital bed in Wellington New Zealand and no idea who the hell I was. I got a job waiting tables in the tourist area but without a passport or memories I had no idea who or where to go."

"How did you all end up together?" asked Elizabeth.

"I went looking for Mr. Zachara, his father had had contact with Helena and I needed to know what she had wanted." said the man with the Russian accent as he stood behind Emily. "I tracked him down and he had her with him. He gave me where to look for the information in exchange for a passport to get her here. I offered to fly them home. I had already rescued Emily and Robin but had kept them away from my meetings with the man since I had no idea who was involved or why Helena was so determined to get to Emily."

"And what did you find out?" asked Monica as she looked at her little girl.

"Nothing, I dealt with it another way, one that my cousin should have chosen a very long time ago." said Valentine. "She made the mistake of trying to grab Emily from our hotel room. Emily and Robin got a drop on her and I finished the job."

"I was furious because he hadn't brought the passports so I went to the hotel, brought Georgie with me and the rest you can say is history." said Johnny as he smiled at the group. "Now, if you will excuse me, I have a 142 more countries to see.

Watching him leave, Georgie could tell he was feeling alone but knew that he needed to go. Sending him a text, she was grimacing at these roaming rates and laughed when she got one back promising to come home when he was ready.

"So, tell me, what got the two of you straightened out. I kept dreaming of Jake, Robin told me he almost died." said Emily hugging her brother and his wife, her very pregnant best friend.

"That can wait, for now, lets get all of you home." said Monica looking around. "There are going to be so many happy people at this news."

So home they went. Georgie was soon on the sofa, curled up with Maxie as she filled her parents in on her adventures down under. Emily was introducing her new man to her grandfather and Tracy and finding out all she had missed. Sorrowful at all the terrible things that had happened, she sensed that peace had finally come to Port Charles and her family.

And Robin, she was holding her sleeping little girl while telling her husband about how when she went to be tested in Europe her drug regimen was working. "Someone, other than Lisa was messing with my tests."

Telling her about the Davis girls, he said "Who knows, Molly and Kristina might have seen you as a rival for Sam, like they did Elizabeth."

Over at the home holding the Jason Quartermaine family, Elizabeth was being held by her husband after they had decided that sleeping apart was foolish, even if they weren't having a sexual relationship, just yet. "So, I was thinking, we have a problem."

"What kind of problem." he asked lifting his head from where it lay next to hers on the pillow.

"What to name our daughter." she said. "We really can't use Emily as her first name, anymore."

"Okay." he said. "What about something else that begins with an E."

Going through the list, each one sounding more old fashioned than the next, Elizabeth began laughing and said "Edwina?"

Pinning her arms overheard he said "That will only make Edward unbearable, something else."

"Elf?" she asked only to be glared at and making her laugh even louder. "What about Elise, its a form of Elizabeth."

"No, I think the real thing is much better." he admitted.

"Eleni?" she asked.

"Too Greek." he said.

"Epiphany, that would certainly get me in good with my boss." she said laughing as he said no to that one too.

"Eugenie?" she asked with a wrinkled nose.

"Eva, or Evonne?" she tossed out only to be told no.

"Wait." Jason sat up then looked at his wife and said "Emila, it is a province in Italy."

"Emila Sienna Quartermaine." she said certain that they had the perfect name. And two months later, their little girl was born, a healthy loud angel who would be the apple of her daddy's eye.

"A girl, why did Mom have to have a girl." said Jake when he saw all the pink stuff his sister was wearing as his parents brought her home..

Glumly Cam said "She said she couldn't help it, that she has what she has."

"It sucks, what are we going to do with a sister. Girls like yucky stuff like dresses and hair bows." said Jake as his father winked at his mother, well aware that someday Jake wouldn't have such an issue with girls.

"I guess we can turn her into a tomboy." said Cam recalling his friend Fred called his sister one and she didn't seem that bad..

Four years later, Elizabeth was reminding Cam what he had said when his little sister was born as she refused to return his race car. "But Mom the guys are coming over, she has to give it back."

"Bet you are regretting turning her into a tom boy, huh?" she said with a chuckle as her dare devil little angel climbed the small ladder to the tree house and stood there glaring at her brother.

That night after the children were in bed, Jason padded barefooted back downstairs, "Oh, the sweet sounds of silence."

"Not for long." she said with a sigh then handed him the stick. Three growing boys and one very healthy little girl were about to be joined by a plus one.

~~The End~~