Chapter 23

Elizabeth woke up curled around her pillow and looking around found the t-shirt with the note on it. Following it's directions, she saw Jason on the patio waiting for her. "Good afternoon, I thought you were going to stay with me."

Kissing his wife after pulling her onto his lap, Jason said "We had company while you were asleep and I didn't want them to disturb you."

Resting her head on his shoulder, she saw the flowers and asked "Who was here?"

"Max and Milo." he said with sigh. "I found out Max got married. They will be staying in Italy, but wanted to wish us well. The flowers and the food in the kitchen are from their father."

They had also told him that Maximus had given Jerry Jacks a choice, either take care of Sam and Spinelli or die. The Aussie had screwed up the first half so the guard with him had killed Jerry. Jason had known part of it, and had paid for it to be done with a major chunk of Sonny's former business.

"What do you want to do today?" he asked "There is a museum in Sienna, or we could drive to Rome."

"How about we stay here, I am sure that is quite a few things we can come up with to do here." she said and found herself kissed senseless. "First however, your daughter is demanding to be fed."

As she followed Jason to the stone kitchen, Elizabeth admired the view only to hear "If you want food, you need to stop removing my jeans with your eyes."

Blushing, she said "Hey, that is our daughter who wants a meal, I would prefer to stay in bed all day."

Feeding his wife, Jason found took much longer when they were alone. Between kissing each other and the need for skin to skin contact, the omelet was lukewarm and the fruit soft by the time Elizabeth had eaten the last bite.

Carrying her back down the hall, Jason was about to head to their room when he stopped and said "I have another place I want to show you."

"Jason, if you don't finish this now..." she said laughing as he turned around and went up more stairs. Arriving on the second floor, she said "Last time we were here, I saw this floor."

"Not this you didn't." he said then carried her into the master bedroom. Laying her down on the bed, he saw her astounded expression as she looked at the murals, then at the large carved bed she was on and started to laugh.

"Jas-jason, what is this?" she asked looking at all the cupids and various other allegorical scenes. Then she glanced up and saw the mirror on the top of the canopy bed. "Oh, this is way too over the top, who did this?"

"The family that owned the house before I bought it. I tried having the bed removed, but they would have to take it apart and even then it would have to go out the windows over there." he said while she just laughed. "Now you know why I was using the downstairs bedroom."

"So why are we here now?" she asked only for the mood to become more serious when Jason laid down next to her and whispered "I wanted to at least keep it for us, for this moment. I have dreamed of this since the day I bought this place."

Georgie let herself into the club, tomorrow was opening night and she wanted to check and make sure everything was set. After talking to the club manager, she went up the stairs to her father's new office and saw him looking through old files. "Dad, do you need anything?"

"No, sweetie." he said then gave a quiet chuckle. "Want to see something."

Taking the offered picture, she started to laugh at Kevin Collins and her father dressed in Nun's habits. "Was this for a case?"

"I swore I would never answer that question." he said. Standing, he went to the window overlooking the club and asked "Where is your task master?"

"Diane or Alexis?" she asked. Then said "Diane is dealing with Cody being arrested for punching some guy at Jake's lights out over Kelly Lee and Alexis was mumbling threatening remarks about you as she went to get something to eat."

"I forbade her to cook in the building." he said absentmindedly. Then pulling his thoughts together said "What happened yesterday with Johnny?"

"Nothing, we danced like Elizabeth manipulated us into doing, but then when the music ended we each went our own way." she replied with a shrug. "I have to meet Maxie, she has a fashion designer crisis."

"I heard what you did, Alexis told me you wrote the paper, then filed it on your sister's behalf then wrote the arguments for the court case." he said. "You are going to be a great lawyer, you do know that."

Hugging him on her way to the stairs, Georgie said "Yes, I do."

At the Metrocourt, Maxie was waiting for her when she arrived at the restaurant. "Thank you!"

"You are welcome, I guess that Leslie Lu Spencer has been ordered to pay her share?" she asked.

"Yes, the landlord returned half of the first and last months rent and most of the security deposit to me as well, since I was the one who put it up. When she finally returned Lulu is in for a nasty little shock." she said smugly. "She owes the land company four thousand dollars and the more time passes the more the interest grows."

"Half the rent would only be twenty five hundred, was the rest punitive?" she asked after placing her order.

"Nope, there was damage to her room too. I said for them to take that out of the security deposit, being the oh so gracious person I am." she said giggling. "And they kept her share of the two months. I can't wait for her to call again and ask me to send her her so called fair share of it. And the stuff she left there, they put in storage and that is adding on to what she owes."

"Good, couldn't happen to a nicer person." she said. "So, who was the call from yesterday?"

"Uh, that man that was pretending to be Jason." she said quietly. "I enjoyed talking to him, but he isn't coming back. He was just letting me know."

"Did you like him?" Georgie asked her sister.

"It was more like I kind of thought if he didn't have Jason's face, I could find him attractive in an older man fashion." she said. Maxie took a deep breath and continued. "That designer, this Andre Collier, he asked me out. I said no."

"Why?" the brunette asked. "I thought you liked him?"

"I do, but it was more for who he is professionally then who he is personally. I am going on a date with Patrick's little brother. We flirted a while back, but nothing came of it."

"So why go on a date with him?" she asked confused.

"I need to find out who I am." she said then saw Georgie flinching and recalling the letter from Johnny winced at how she had echoed his words to her sister.

Alexis slipped into the back of the courtroom after lunch as her ex-daughter was convicted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to commit fraud, fraud, attempted murder, as well as several charges of perjury.

Sam had tried to say she that she had made mistakes because of her fragile mindset, and then had tried to use her stillborn daughter as a reason for that. The judge hadn't bought it and had sentenced her to forty years to life if she ever got better.

When the woman had been led out of the courtroom crying, Alexis walked over and asked for a few minutes. "Sam, did you ever love that baby or was she always a means to an end."

"How can you even ask me that?" she said bitterly. "If my baby hadn't died, none of this would have happened. Jason and I would be happy, that bitch Elizabeth wouldn't have gotten her hooks in him and I would have the life I always wanted. I would have the respect and we all know the way the Quartermaines are about family, I would have had it all."

"I just heard I, and I and I, not a single word about how your child would have been. Sam, when you are a parent, they are the most important priority of your life. You, your entire life has been about you. And while you might have been happy in this scenario, Jason wouldn't have."

Walking away, Alexis took one last shot and made sure it counted. "You do know that Jason and Elizabeth are married, don't you?"

"Of course they are married, it's the only way he could get his son." she said snorting.

"They have another child on the way as well. Elizabeth found out the day of the wedding. It's going to be a little girl." she added to twist the knife.

"I guarantee the first time he puts her to bed in our penthouse, he remembers our little girl, so I will still be there, still be a ghost between them." she called out.

"Sam, they bought a house out the cliff roads. And I guarantee, they have exorcised any thoughts about you from their minds. Things are back the way they were meant to be, you, are more like a wisp, something they think of only when reminded. Sam, when you die, there is going to be no one on this earth to mourn you. No one that will care as they put your body in potter's field."

Early the next morning, the nurse who was responsible for Sam's care during the day went to her supervisor who said "I will tell the doctor, but I don't think he is going to be too worried, it's not like Miss McCall can commit suicide without help."

Jax was helping Morgan with his homework when he got the call from Bobbie. "Thank you for sending me to see her. You were right, I called AJ a few minutes ago, he is going to talk to Michael."

"I am sorry, Bobbie." he said then looking over to where his children were, he said "They want to drug her, I told them it was up to you."

"The papers were already signed. Did you know that she claims to have seen Brenda?" she asked. Jax started to say something but kept quiet. If it took Bobbie thinking Brenda had been imaginary for her to agree to let them drug Carly, he would keep quiet.

"Your pilot is waiting, I will be stopping to see Laura in Paris before returning. Lulu is there and she is upset about something." the red head said with a sigh. "I am worried about her turning into Carly."

Johnny took the packet from the private investigator he hired then after paying the man, sat it on his desk. Sitting there looking at it, knowing it contained all the answers to his questions, he got up, went to his closet and pulled out the letters.

Tossing them into the passenger seat, Johnny drove from Crimson Point to Port Charles. Grimacing when he realized it was dinner time, he called and asked "Can you meet me?"

Wanting to say she wasn't going to be at his beck and call, the brunette looked at her lock box and said "At Kelly's."

Returning her letters, her divorce decree and some other papers to the box, Georgie locked it and then let her dad know he could return it to the safe when he got home that night. When she arrived at the diner, she saw Mike who looked shaky at the counter and turned when she heard footsteps.

"Let's walk, okay?" she asked. Nodding, he said "I still own the garage, we can go there, if you don't mind."

"No, that is fine." she said awkwardly. Looking at him while he turned on the heat, Georgie said "How are you?"

"Fine, I guess." he said then asked her to sit down. "I owe you a better explanation for what happened."

"Johnny, no you don't. We were, are friends, yes I think we both wanted more, but in the end, you were right, we both needed to find ourselves." she said choking on the words.

"That's not true. That is part of what I have to tell you, please?" he pleaded with her.

Not wanting to hear this, she still sat down. As he told her about his childhood, about Trevor, she got what he had meant about being lonely as a child. "That is why I missed Claudia so much, she was my anchor."

Looking at his coat where the letters caused the front pocket to bulge, he said "The computer became my contact with the outside world. I made a friend, one I would come to care very much for." he said stuttering a bit. "We started to write to each other, just nonsense stuff, but it made things a bit easier to deal with. I know that sounds lame but..."

"No, it doesn't." she said thinking about her friend who had been there for her while she had been living through her parents splitting up and Maxie's drama of a life. "I just don't understand why you are telling me this now..."

"I built this person up in my mind, they were well, she became this dream in my mind. I used to think that if my dad was gone, if Trevor was gone, I would find her and we would live happily ever after." he said flushing a bit at the lameness of it.

"Then Trevor found out. I erased my hard drive then smashed my computer. I told her in our last contact that I was ..." putting away childish interests. He thought to himself what a fool he had been. "I just ended the letters. A few weeks later, Trevor set my father to attacking me, so I ran."

"Is this when your Mom's family in Ohio were killed?" she asked sympathetically.

"I don't know if it was Trevor or Anthony, but yes." he said. "I came home, did what I was told, was their little puppet but rereading and rereading those letters, they took on even more importance. They were my goal of freedom. Then I overheard Trevor talking one day about Port Charles and his plans for here."

"You met Lulu, right?"

"No, this was about six months before." he said. "Someone had gotten in over their head and in exchange for the money to get out of debt they gave up a lot on Jason Morgan. I came to town but didn't know how to warn him. Anyhow, I was racing back to get home before my curfew when I saw an address in Beecher's Corners and I had an accident."

"Where you hurt badly?"

With a wry laugh he said "I took out the building, had a broken arm and a concussion. It was worth it though, it gave me hope. Then I started to act like that accident wasn't an accident. Trevor shit bricks worried I was trying to kill myself so he got Anthony to release the leash just a bit."

Swallowing hard, he said "Then I went to find my friend but it was too late, my only way to find her was gone. So I decided to embrace what freedom I had. That was when I met Lulu. I went home, put my letters in the fireplace and walked away. My friend was someplace, she is happy and more than likely forgot all about the me. I knew it was the right thing to do."

"Why?" she asked bluntly, thinking about her own pen pal.

"She is and was safe from my world." he said simply. "I let it go, I took my feelings for her and just sort of put them in a box that said do not touch. It worked for a long time, then I kidnapped Elizabeth's boys and some part of that box kicked itself open. I was fine with that, she became this ideal."

Georgie swallowed at the tone of his voice, she felt her own heart breaking as she realized he had come to tell her he had found this woman. The woman he was clearly in love with. Not sure she wanted to hear it, but knowing he needed to tell her, she just sat there.

"I decided that what I was going to look for in the future wasn't the opposite of her, but someone with the same ideals. Someone who didn't just live life, someone who wanted to make it better." he said softly. Then added "I was certain it would work, but then Jax came to me with these letters that Jerry had. He had stolen them from Trevor, how he got them, I don't know."

"I sat down, I was going to just put them in the closet and forget them. Instead I felt this pull, this need to read them." he said softly. "And they made matters worse, because I knew I was falling in love with you, and yet there was this woman. And reading them, the letters reminded me of my past yet also they seemed almost about you."

Georgie stood and walked to the window, staring out in spite of not actually seeing a thing. Johnny saw her, saw she was tense waiting for the blow she knew was coming even as he tried to figure it out. "I don't know if I was projecting you onto her letters or was trying to find a reason not to go looking. So I decided to figure it out. I wrote you that letter, not wanting to hurt you, because from the moment we met, I felt this pull, this ..." he left it blank.

Wiping the tear on his cheek he said hoarsely. "I hired someone, had them look for her. Reread and reread the letters for clues and yet you kept popping up. They brought me the file today and I couldn't bring myself to read it."

"Are you afraid your dream won't match reality?" she asked curious. "I have been there, we all have."

"No, actually more scared I am going to find she does match the dream, because god..." Johnny looked at the woman he knew he wanted a future with, but he also knew he still was attached to the woman from his past. "I have no right to ask... I don't want to hurt you... I just..."

Hearing the gaps between words, Georgie turned and felt her heart twist at the agony on his face and said "What is it?"

"I love you." he said barely getting the word out. "Yet I can't walk away from this. I have no right asking you but please, help me time to figure this out. I know that I am being an ass, but the fear of losing you matters more than finding out the truth about her."

Her legs weakened by what he was saying, Georgie walked over and sat down and asked "What exactly do you want me to do?"

"I brought the letters with me, tell me to toss them in the fireplace, tell me you love me too." he said. "I need to hear it, I so want to take that leap..."

Georgie found some inner strength and said "I love you, but I am telling you not to toss them. Find out the truth, Johnny. That way it isn't hanging over us."

Kissing her, he pulled her into his arms, then pulled back. "What exactly are you saying..."

"Johnny, go meet her, find out the truth. Who knows what you will find."

"Will you do one more thing, before you leave..." he asked "If I am going to go and meet her, read the letters, or is that asking too much?"

Not sure she wanted to, but knowing she would be curious, Georgie said "Yes, but can I take them with me."

Nodding, he pulled out the large envelope with them in it and handed it to her. "I am spending the night here, if you want to talk."

Johnny walked Georgie to the door and gave her a hug, knowing he was taking a risk. As he climbed into bed, he fell asleep right away, realizing he had relieved himself of the heavy burden he had been carrying since the day Jax had given him the letters.

Three days later, Elizabeth and Jason were disembarking from the jet only to hear "Well well, little brother, you look rather smug."

Glaring at AJ, he settled for a mild "What are you doing here?" instead of smacking the smirk off his face.

"Besides being blinded by your grin, you mean?" he asked. "I am here because we have a few loose ends to clean up. Hello, Elizabeth, may I say you look radiant today?"

Chuckling, Elizabeth gave him a hug then asked "How is Michael doing?"

"It is the start of his first month without immediate supervision, when I asked him what he wanted me to send to him. He said his gaming system and then asked for cookies from Kelly's." he told them. "He is doing much better, still has his up and down days but that is to be expected."

"I know that Bobbie went to see him, she left a message on my voice mail." said Jason.

"Jax and she flew out after bringing Lulu home." he said with a smirk. "I used to think of Laura Spencer as weak, but man, she was breathing fire today when she was at GH."

"What is going on?" asked Elizabeth as they got into the car now that their luggage had been tucked into the trunk.

"Lulu took off, something about her apartment. Laura was up in arms, something about how a Spencer always pays their debts?" he said looking amused. "Lulu is now working at GH as an orderly. She was throwing a hissy fit at Georgie Jones earlier."

Pulling up to the house, Elizabeth and Jason weren't even out of the car when Jake and Cam came rushing out to greet them. "We have lots and lots to tell you."

After thanking her grams and Steven for keeping the boys, the newlyweds found themselves along with their boys. Listening to stories about Steven helping them paint pictures for them and how Grandpa Jeff had slipped on the soap after helping give them a bath as well as how Alice had come out for a day to help them back cookies, Jason found himself watching his wife, imagining her surrounded by that large family they had talked about.

"Mommy, Morgan went to Arizona, they have a really, really big ditch out there, can we go see it?" asked Cam while Jake just went to the children's books about the states and pulled it off showing them the picture saying SEE!

"He said his new daddy, Jax took him to see it." said Cam. "He is nice, he brought Morgan out to visit and then took us to visit him at the hotel pool."

Once the boys had settled down, Jason kissed his wife and said "I have to go deal with this."

"Go, just remember we have plans for this evening." she said with a secret smile.

"Remind me again?" he asked easing her back against the wall.

"Dinner after the boys are in bed, then I believe you wanted to see that outfit I bought at the airport on our way home." she said as he thought about the foam green lace and silk dress.

"I will be as quick as I can and don't even think of starting without me." he ordered on his way. Stopping to check in with the guards, he heard that other than Lulu Spencer stopping by looking for Elizabeth twice the day before it had been quiet.

Mike wasn't happy when AJ entered the diner. "What are you doing here? Haven't you done enough to my family?"

"I would say you owe me." the blond retorted. "You owe me family, for inflicting your offspring on us, for your own failings and for the mistake you made in February of 2007."

Seeing his expression of fear then the look of smug calmness, he listened to the gambler say "What proof do you have?"

"Jerry Jacks found out, he was keeping it in reserve in case he had need for it. What I want to know is when you learned the truth?"

Swearing Mike kept silent as he watched AJ lean against the counter. "We know about your selling what you knew about Jason, I do want to know, did you mean for it to go to Lansing, or did you have someone else in mind? Were you trying to get to my brother? And why?"

"He, he BETRAYED my little girl, then when she died, he didn't even care." he hissed. "For what, that tramp Sam McCall, for Elizabeth Webber?"

"What about Courtney, what about what she did?" he asked curious to hear his response. "Seriously Mike, your daughter was a whore looking for the main chance."

"She was a good girl, she lost herself because of this town." he said. "She is dead and no one ever even thinks about it, no one remembers my little girl."

Feeling sick, AJ said "You do, but now you are going to pay for your mistakes and then there will be no one left to care that she is dead. Mike, your daughter left a path of lies and deceit behind her. Your son a path of death and destruction, thank god you only had two kids."

A half hour later, two customers entered the diner surprised it was still open just as a small man in a black mask skipped past them carrying a gun. Shocked they saw the long time manager, Mike lying in a puddle of blood. Calling the police, they said "Kelly's was robbed and we just saw the thief leaving carrying a gun. Mike is dead."

Georgie was standing at the back of the club watching the crowds ebb and flow, seeing her sister and cousin looking her way, she pretended to be happy and waved at them. Moving their way, she greeted them while Maxie said rather smugly "I knew that dress was perfect for you."

Looking down at the strapless black dress, Georgie said "Could you find it a little longer next time. I feel like my legs are exposed."

Hugging her, Maxie looked to where Johnny was sitting in a booth and sulking while glaring at her sister, then said "This is a club, not a nunnery."

"Convent." she said absentmindedly while watching as Lulu entered the club. "Excuse me, I have to deal with something."

Walking over to the blond Georgie never saw Johnny moving in closer. "Welcome to the Outback."

"Daddy have to hire you since no one else will?" Lulu snarked. Then looking at her said "Nice dress, did you forget to wear the bottom of it."

"Oh course." she said then went to walk away but Lulu didn't have the sense to let it go and said "You are rather pathetic you know. I mean, please... that outfit begs a man for attention. Not that you ever really did have much to appeal to one. Dillon felt sorry for you, Diego was nuts and even Spinelli wasn't into you. You are a loser who lives with and works for her daddy."

Johnny wasn't that shocked he had come to believe what Elizabeth had told him but seeing and hearing it first hand was a different thing. Stepping up to defend Georgie he felt someone grab his arm and saw Robin shaking her head.

Georgie turned and looked the blond up and down then said "Funny, that looks like one of Carly's dresses. Mommy wouldn't buy you a dress to attend tonight, would she?"

"Please, at least my mother is here, where is yours again?" sneered Lulu.

"Saving the world, instead of spending years locked up in a world made up in her mind, how was that by the way. When you were there did they give you matching rooms?" she snarked back at the blond. "Lulu, let it go. I don't want to fight with you this evening."

"Why, afraid you would lose at that just like you have everything else in your life? How was school in Italy, that's right, you didn't get to go did you?" she asked gleefully. "I spent a couple of weeks there with Ethan, it was beautiful."

"I know." she said and started to walk away just as Lulu decided she had to have the last word.

"How does it feel to know that every single man you have ever cared for wanted someone else more."

Raw from what was going on with Johnny, she turned and said "You want to talk, let's. You have no man because they get sick of the whining, the pathetic need to cling, or the endless lies. You live in your mother's house so you have nothing to say about me living at home. And as for jobs, lets' see. Kelly's, which you got because you were family. Crimson which you got because of Carly and then there is your current job, which you got because of Bobbie and your mother begging Steven Webber to give you a chance."

"Please, you don't even have a real job." she sneered.

"No, I have three. I work as a paralegal for Diane Miller, I work for my dad here and then I help with his agency. Oh, and I will be graduating in May, how did college work out for you, Lulu?"

Flushing, she said "At least men want me!"

"Good, that way you have a fallback career, just like your cousin, marrying rich men and taking them for everything they are worth. I am little more interested in self respect than social climbing, Lulu."

"But still no man?" she mocked.

"True, but they can be replaced with batteries and sperm banks." she said sweetly. "When the men run off, and you have lost your looks, what next Lulu? End up in a padded cell just like Carly?"

"Enough." said Laura pushing her way through the growing crowd. "Georgie, I am ashamed at the way you are talking. How could you use that to hurt, Lulu?"

"Laura, you are not my mother, so I really don't give a damn how you feel about me, now take your daughter and leave." she said calmly. "I will let the hostess know you are not welcome so please don't come back."

"Oh please, like anyone will want to come back to this place." said Lulu looking around and seeing for the first time the crowd and how they were looking at her. "I mean, please no one who is anyone is here."

Georgie saw Maxie start to move forward and grabbed her sister's arm and said "Good, then it won't make a difference that you were banned."

AJ was standing next to Jax who said with a deadpanned expression "I used to think I was someone, must be getting old."

"Obviously you are no one. I guess I am no one as well."

"Wow, I mean, wow." said Maxie as she tried to keep her temper from exploding at the same time she loved her sister standing up for herself. "I don't know if I want to say atta girl or follow her and rip out every single strand of her hair."

"Let it go, I am going to." said Georgie walking to the bar and asking the bartender for a glass of Merlot.

"How can you drink that stuff." muttered Maxie before walking back to the table and high fiving Patrick who had had several run ins with Orderly Spencer.

Robin went to follow her cousin but saw Johnny doing so. Turning she went to ask the bartender for a tequila shot. Drinking it, she said "One for the Scorpio/Jones girls."

Elizabeth had just gotten Cam to bed when she heard a knock at the main door. Walking down the stairs, she ran through the list of people the guards would let up to the house before opening the door to see her brother standing there.

With a sigh, she looked at her watch, then said "Steven, I love you dearly, but make it quick, very, very quick."

"Seduce your husband later." he said laughing. "I uh, don't know if you heard but Dad is in the hospital from the fall in your bathroom."

"What?" she asked then closed her eyes. "The soap incident."

"Yes, he played it off for the boys, but he is having surgery tomorrow, he broke his foot. We have to reset it tomorrow. Could you stop over."

"Yes, I will be there." she said hugging him then giggled at the mental image. "I know, it's wrong."

"Well I was thinking about using surgical threat and taping his mouth shut while he was out." he said with a chuckle of his own. "Did you know that Jason and I are related through our biological mothers?"

"No, I didn't." she said then saw her husband coming down the stairs looking for her and asked him if he had known.

"No, I knew about Monica and your dad, but not about Susan." he said then asked Steven if everything was okay?

Getting the story, Jason winced at the broken foot. Steven was telling them about Bobbie's requests when the phone rang. "Why are you calling me if he is dead?"

Hanging up the phone, Steven said "Kelly's was robbed tonight, Mike Corbin was killed."

"Oh my god." said Elizabeth. "Who did it?"

"I have no idea, but the coroner has his hands full and asked me to take a look." he said. "Mac gave Abbott my name. I have to go."

Jason observed the car driving away then turned to say "I believe we have a date. Do you want to cancel?"

"No, I feel bad for Mike, but honestly, I didn't know him that well." she said. "It is more that I used to work that late shift and closed alone a lot."

Not admitting she had always had guards on those night, no matter what had been going on between them, but knowing he had to reassure he flushed as he told her. When she hugged him, Jason said "I am going to get our dinner."

"I will be right back down." she said then went to change. Looking down at the first outer sign she was pregnant and turned to look in the mirror sideways, running her hands over the baby bump. Hearing a moan, she turned to see him with two plates and a look of lust in his eyes, "Down boy, your daughter is hungry."

Walking onto the darkened observation deck, he asked "Are you okay?"

Turning, Georgie said "Yes, of course." Gesturing for him to join her, she showed him they could see the club from here. "I love this."

"What? Watching others have a good time, faking that you are?" he asked quietly. "I have been watching you all night."

Turning, she said "I do love this, I just am feeling a bit guilty because I haven't been able to bring myself to read those letters."

Walking back to the desk, she picked up her wine glass and took a sip. "Why didn't you return my call?"

"I couldn't. I uh, spent the night after you left taking apart my engine." he said slightly flushed. "I uh, cleaned it, then rebuilt it."

Taking his hands, she said "I love the feel, after you have been working on a car. The ridges are soft and smooth, yet you have callouses and … cuts?" she asked her voice getting worried 'What happened?"

"Nothing, I uh, was a bit tired, after the first day and well, I cut myself while dropping the engine back in."

"Did you get it cleaned?" she asked.

"Just soap and water." he said then found himself led to a small ante room that led to an elevator. "Where are we going?"

"Ssh." she said then using the key she was wearing on her wrist took him up to the top floor. "Sit down."

With a small grin, he did then saw her with the bottle of peroxide and said "I promise, I am fine."

Holding out her hand for his, she pulled it over the glass bowl she had on the table. When the liquid bubbled and turned white on his skin, she looked at him and said "You were saying? You need a keeper, what exactly were you thinking."

Hiding his broad grin as she scolded him, he waited until she had wrapped his hand before standing and saying. "Any time you want the job, it's yours."

"I hate to get my hands dirty, I told you that." she said as she put away the first aid kit. "Besides, what I know about cars is that gasoline goes in the round thing on the side."

"NO, I meant about being my keeper." he said softly before moving behind her and encircling her with his arms he leaned over and put away her last bit of stuff, before turning her. Seeing her close her eyes, he asked. "Is it so hard to read them, shouldn't I have..."

"It's not that. I just... knowing you were involved with Lulu is easy, I don't know the details, same with this Olivia woman, but Johnny reading these letters, these are someones intimate thoughts shared with you. I can't do that. I have written letters, with things I wouldn't want to be made available for just anyone to read."

Kissing her shoulder, Johnny said "I get that, maybe I should take them back."

"Maybe it would be a good idea." she said before walking over to the desk and removing them from her purse on it. "Here."

"What about us?" he asked.

"Find her, find out where you are, then if..." she couldn't bring herself to say it, instead she kept hearing Brooklynn saying to know if something truly loves you, set it free. "I will be waiting."

Johnny had come to realize he didn't want to find this woman any longer, but now found himself looking for her not because he still dreamed about her but because he wanted a life with the woman in front of him.

Leaving, he went to the front door when he saw Mac who asked him to come back upstairs for a minute. "I just left Georgie up there."

"Okay, I was wondering if you were interested in helping me on a case. I have a man who runs a car dealership and he is sure that one of his salesmen is altering used cars. I don't know enough about the new systems to check." Mac said as they walked into the back office he kept for the staff.

"I can take care of it." he said then setting down the envelope on the desk. Taking the paper with the address, he said "When do you need the information."

"The sooner the better."

Johnny went to leave, then heard his phone ringing. Answering it, he walked out forgetting all about the package he had had with him. After a quick conversation with AJ he said "I am leaving the Outback right now."

"Good, wait for me." he said before paying his tab. The waitress was shocked. Three sodas and the tip was the same as the bill, so much for her friend Stacy saying the guy would be a sucky tip. Arriving outside, he said "I need to set up something, it's illegal sort of."

Johnny didn't want any part of it until he heard what the other man was up to. Laughing he said "Morgan is going to kill you, you do know that, don't you? I don't want any part of it."

"No, this isn't for him. This is for my cousin, Ned, he is performing at the Outback tomorrow night. We slip in while they are closed tomorrow and set it up in the dressing room."

"Georgie is going to kill me." he said "Why?"

"When I was talking to his daughter, she was telling me something he did to her and tomorrow night is his forty fifth birthday. Since I wasn't around for his fortieth, this will have to do. Besides, I owe Lois."

At closing time, a yawning Mac thanked the staff and was telling them they had done a good job when he saw the package. Opening it, he saw Georgie's letters, and went home and placed them on her desk next to her other pile wrapped in a similar ribbon.

Georgie hung up the phone and groaned. "I am way too tired to do this."

Dragging herself out of bed, she went to shower, hoping the cold water would wake her. "Georgie, come on, you aren't the only one needing the bathroom." called out Maxie who when the door was opened glared and said "There had better be hot water left."

"There is plenty, I have to go to GH. Dr. Quartermaine wants to talk to me. Then I have to pick up my dresses from the cleaners. I hate dressing up." she grumbled. "Why couldn't dad open a bar, you know a simple bar where everyone wears jeans."

"Well, grumpy, because that isn't what the Outback was or is." yawned Maxie. "But these late nights are doing me in too. I think tonight I will stay home."

"You can't. Ned and Brooklynn are performing tonight."

Entering her room, she saw she had forgotten to put her letters away. Picking them up, she went to her box then stopped. Looking at them, she sat down on the bench at the foot of her bed. Lifting the letter on the bench she read it, then thought about it, before going to her desk just as she heard someone at her door.

"Georgie?"

Going over, she opened it and stood there holding the letter, "What is it dad?"

"I see you got your letters, you left them at the club, the outer envelope got wet, here." he said handing her the brown clasp envelope. Starring at him, Georgie took it then said in a monotone Thanks.

Closing her door, Georgie sat down again and then standing went over to the desk, arranged letters by date and then read them. After the few couple she closed her eyes, thinking on all that had been going on at that time. Rereading his letters, knowing what was going on in his life, she couldn't help regretting how breezy she had been over the years.

Maxie rushed back up the stairs having forgot her cell phone to see that Georgie's door was still closed. Stopping frowning, she tried to recall if she had heard her sister leaving that morning. Knocking softly, she opened the door and saw Georgie sitting staring into space still wearing her bathrobe, her hair still wrapped in a towel.

Sitting down next to her, she said "Georgie, what is it?"

Looking at her sister, Georgie said "Nothing bad, I promise. I just need to deal with something, something I am not sure how to handle. I mean... on one hand, I just learned that everything I have ever wanted is in my grasp, but at the same time... I can't explain."

"Is this about Johnny?" she asked awkwardly. They hadn't discussed the Italian since before Christmas.

"Yes and no." Georgie said. Holding up the letters, she said "Remember You've Got Mail?"

"Yes, you're strange obsession with that movie." she said. "Wait, is this about your pen pal?"

"Yes, I just... to me those letters were fun, I liked the idea of them. The having someone to vent to who didn't compare me to you, to Lulu. To Robin. The person I wrote to was a way to have a secret."

"Yes." Maxie said cautiously, "What about it?"

"I found out who the person was. Too them, the letters were a lifeline." she said sadly. "I was reading what I wrote, and now knowing what they were dealing with, Maxie, I was so shallow. I never thought about their life, what they were going through."

"Georgie, that isn't true. I mean, we talked about this years ago. I MADE you promise not to go looking for your pal after that one letter, remember." she said. "I told you to concentrate on your real life. You did nothing wrong."

"I have to go." she said gathering all the letters then looking down at her bathrobe went to change. "Maxie, cover for me tonight, please?"

"Georgie, Brooklynn is your friend, more than mine. It's you she wants to see." Maxie reminded her.

"Then she will understand, I have to talk to him." she said "And this might take a while."

"I don't know that it would be safe for you to be meeting someone you have never actually meet." said the blond.

"I have meet him, it's how I know about his life." she said then looking at her hair, growled then pulling out a rubber band, ruthlessly gathered it back and pulled it up. "Got to go."

Maxie was a bit weird-ed out by her sister's behavior and didn't want her meeting anyone without back up. When her sister grabbed a ski cap and gloves before rushing off without her letters, the blond made an executive decision that was going to piss her off but still did it.

"Johnny, where are you?" she asked when he finally answered the phone "And where have you been?"

Standing in his bathroom, he said "The shower. Why?"

"Get dressed and get the hell over to my house and quick, I think my sister has lost her mind." she snapped before hanging up. Grinning to herself, glad to see she had a little part of manipulative Maxie inside of her, she watched the clock, then grinned when she heard the squeal of tires pulling into the drive fifteen minutes later.

At General Hospital, Elizabeth was talking quietly to her father as they prepped him for surgery. "I am so sorry, dad."

With a laugh, Jeff said "It was my own fault. I took the soap out and did what I used to do with your kids. I left it on the edge of the tub."

"Still, you are ..."

"I am fine, don't even think about mentioning my age, your brother already did." he said with a glare. "Would you do that to your grandmother?"

"No, but grams is scary." she said with an impish grin. Hearing someone coming in, she saw Monica standing there in scrubs.

"Please tell me you aren't performing my surgery." he joked with his ex-wife.

"No, Steven wouldn't let me, reminded me that it isn't your heart, but your foot. I told him in that case he should have Drake performing the surgery."

"Funny." growled Jeff. "Why are you dressed like that then?"

"I was supposed to be in the operating room this morning, but the patient decided to opt out of surgery." she replied. "I heard Elizabeth was here and thought I would sit with her."

Hugging her mother in law, Elizabeth said "I have the pictures back of the wedding, you should see Cam and Jake with Edward."

When Jeff had been wheeled out, Jason arrived and checked in with his wife before going to find his own father. "Alan, you wanted to see me?"

"No, I just was worried about Elizabeth." he said. "She seemed a bit shaky earlier."

"She has been tossing up her breakfast as soon as she eats it." he told his father. "Kelly Lee gave her something to help with it when we saw her first thing this morning."

Sitting down, Alan asked "AJ said Michael is doing well. That he asked about seeing the family."

"He told me. I hope you will go and see him. I am not sure I am up to it." Jason had been getting an update from his brother and knew that it would take some time to get past what he had heard Michael saying about how he had once felt in regards to Jake and Cameron.

"I understand, AJ told me what Michael was saying." he said with a heavy sigh. While Michael himself was horrified at what he had been like, there were going to be some who would not be able to move past it. AJ had mentioned moving to New York or Boston after his son was done at the hospital.

Walking back down the hall, Jason sat down next to Elizabeth aware that even if she hadn't said it, she was worried about her father. A half hour later, Steven came down the hall and said "He is going to be fine."

After a few more assurance, Elizabeth asked Jason to take her for a drive. "Where to?"

"You know." she said quietly. When they were at the Overlook, she said "I was so scared, I spent years blaming him for not loving me. For our estrangement, but I never reached out to him. Same with you, I did the same to us."

"Your Uncle Tom said that I reminded him of Jeff." he said. "I get it, now. We both were the turtles he described your dad and you to be. We would get our feelings hurt and hide."

"No more." she said with a tight hug. "I love you, so very much."

Lifting her head, he kissed her then said "I love you. I have for years."

"I only wish... well, I have almost all I have ever wanted." she said.

"What is this almost?" he asked her while helping her down the stairs to the warm truck.

"I have only one more thing I have ever wanted. And you can't give it to me." she said quietly. "I want Emily back."

"I know, I feel the same way. And I really wish Grandmother was here to see how happy we are." he said. "She told me that someday, what I really want wasn't going to come to me, easily. I discounted it, thinking she was trying to make excuses for Edward."

"What she really meant was you had to work hard for what you want. That if it came to you without work, you didn't appreciate it. She was right." he said then as they pulled of reached for her hand.

Maxie opened the door and said "Wow, you didn't even put in hair product."

"Maxie, I am not in the mood. What is going on?" he snapped. "What is going on with Georgie?"

"I have to go to work, but you have to stop her." she said. "She is about to do something incredibly foolish. Here, read these and stop her. She is all this guilty, Catholic repentance thing. All because she didn't realize some poor smuck's life sucked worse than hers."

"You are making no sense. What am I talking about, you rarely make any sense. Where did your sister go?" he asked intently.

"That is what I am trying to tell you, I HAVE NO IDEA." she snapped. "Take these, stop her."

When the blond left, Johnny sat down and saw his letters, then felt his heart stop as he realized that THEY WERE HIS LETTERS, not the ones that had been written to him. Johnny sat there, not sure what was going on. How had Georgie gotten a hold of his letters?

"John, where we supposed to be meeting?" said Mac.

Standing the younger man said "No, I was... I am not even sure. Anyway, I did check and your salesman is dirty. I went there last night to get the layout and caught him there. I slipped the file under your upstairs office last night, including pictures. "

"How did you get in? Never mind, I don't want to know." he said. "What are you doing with Georgie's letters. I hadn't seen those things in years. Not since she got pissed about them stopping. Now I have seen them twice in a matter of days."

"WAIT! You know about these?" he asked lifting them. "And Georgie wrote them?"

"Yes, a few years ago, after the Diego fiasco, I considered burning them, but Georgie threatened to burn something I have had for years if I ever even thought about it. I was always glad in a way she never learned who the writer was."

"It was me." he said quietly. "I was the writer."

Mac had been bending to pick them up then stood. "What?"

"I wrote them. I didn't know it was Georgie... I don't even know when she found out it was me." he said. "I, we wrote to post office boxes. Hers was in Beechers Corners."

Shaking his head, Mac said "Her mother has one there, the mail is forwarded once a week here. She used it for work. I just paid it, never even canceling it until there was a car accident a few years ago."

With a small grin, Johnny said "That was me also. I was speeding, trying to get home before Trevor figured out I was here trying to find out what he was up to. I saw the building, tried to stop and locked up my brakes. Took out the building and banged myself up real good."

They both turned when they heard footsteps, Mac amused to see his recently depressed daughter animated again. "I think this is my cue to head out."

"Uh, Johnny, I have been looking for you. And I broke a window. Also, I have something to tell you. And you are going to be so mad at me. I am mad at me. I can't believe what an idiot I am. I mean, I am the daughter of two PI's and a secret agent, yet I can't seem to piece together a simple puzzle, I will be right back down, stay here."

Considering stopping her, he instead went to the kitchen and grabbed a piece of fruit from the basket he had seen there. When she thundered back down the stairs while yelling at her sister on the phone, he removed the phone and said "False alarm, don't call back."

"JOHNNY!" before she could get out the next part, she found herself tossed over his shoulder and carried to the sofa.

"Sit down." he said then told her "I will be right back in."

Going to his car, Johnny ripped open the file from the agency he hired. Swearing, he was so pissed at himself, but heading back inside, he kicked his shoes off, then hung up his coat. "Now, we need to talk. Here."

Taking the file like it was a bomb, she asked "What is this?"

"Apparently your life story." he said. "I can't believe this. I don't know who is a bigger idiot, you or me."

"What?" she asked only to spy the letters she thought Maxie had taken on the side table. "Uh, I can explain."

Picking them up, he moved to the other side of the sofa and sat down across from her. "Why, I am equally blind."

"I at least knew I had been writing someone, you didn't." she said weakly. "What now? And why aren't you wearing socks?"

"Your crazy sister called just as I got out of the shower, certain you were going to end up..., I have actually no idea." he said. "I rushed over here, then she tossed these at me saying I had to stop you from meeting the poor smuck who wrote them." he said with a sigh. "I had no idea, I was the smuck."

"You are not a smuck." she said hotly. Then said "I think we both are."

Tossing them down on the coffee table, Johnny said "I have been looking for the woman I already had. You should be kicking my ass."

"Hey, I kind of like that ass." she said blushing then found herself pulled forward. Kissing her, he felt the ponytail hitting him in the face and pulled back. "What is up with your hair?"

"Hey, you should talk." she said as she tugged at the curls. "We need to talk."

Standing he went over and locked the door saying. "Later, much later."

Pulling her up, he kissed her senseless while backing her up the stairs. Georgie reached down and removed the thin shirt he was wearing and tossed it on the railing while his hands were underneath the sweater she was wearing.

"Right or left?" he asked as they reached the landing.

"Uh, left." she said breathlessly after he had punctuated the question with a kiss. When her back hit her bedroom door, Georgie was reaching for the handle when he ordered her to lift her arms. Her sweater soon ended up on the floor next to her door.

Johnny had held her hands above her head for a minute, his eyes on hers before placing them around his neck. Leaning in, Georgie thought about it, then licked the skin of his neck, smiling when he groaned. Pulling the warm moist skin into her mouth, she gently sucked on it.

Finding herself pulled even closer, she removed her hands from his neck and slid them down the tense body in front of her. Reaching his waist, she dipped them lower, then with a raised eyebrow said "Nothing underneath?"

Johnny's hands had been busy she noticed when she pulled back and her cream colored silk bra fell forward onto her upper arms. Pulling back he said "Maxie had me scared you were in trouble."

"Remind me to thank her later." she said running her hands around the inside of the waistband. When they reached the button in the front, she head his gasp then after undoing the button, slid her left hand lower to cup him.

Johnny covered her hand with his and said "We need to slow down or this is going to be over before it begins."

Pouting a bit, she used her other hand to slip her bra off so that it was only on the wrist of the hand he was covering. She saw his eyes following her movements then felt her own body responding as her nipples tightened even more.

Loosening his grip on her hand, he regretted it instantly when she used her free hand to unzip his jeans to free her other hand. Dropping the bra from her wrist, she said "I want you."

Trying to remind himself that he wanted way more than to bed her, Johnny lost control when she flicked his nipple with her tongue.

"Georgie, chap." Wrapping his hand around her nape, he lifted her head and kissed her. As the soft warmth of his tongue invaded her mouth, Georgie tried to grasp what little sanity she had left only for him to pull back slowly, bringing her to the realization that his hand was sliding up her skin to cup her now bared breast.

Feeling the callouses as his fingers kneaded her breast, Georgie moaned into the mouth that was still ravaging hers. Dragging his lips away from her, Johnny looked down at his hand and licked his lips as his fingertips encircled her pale peach tip.

Georgie felt like her legs were going to give away when it no longer seemed to matter, as she found herself lifted and then felt the sudden tugging as his mouth took over her breast. Wrapping her hands in his hair to hold him to her, she tightened her legs around his waist and felt the way his own body was reacting to her.

"GEORGIE!" She heard her name but some part of her didn't recognize the voice, ignoring it allowed her to settle back into the passion heated haze that consisted of Johnny and her until she heard footsteps and then "Georgie, I saw your car out there."

Tensing, then seeing Johnny's confused expression as he wondered what was wrong, Georgie reached down and opened the door to her room causing them to fall in. "What?"

"Sssh." she said then kicked the door shut.

"C'mon Georgie, I really really need a chili cheese fry fix." They both heard.

"How did she get in, I locked the door." growled the man lying on top of his girlfriend.

"She knows where we keep the extra key." whispered Georgie. "And she is persistent, she isn't going to go away."

Hearing the knocking on the door, then her threat to come in, Georgie put her feet flat on the door and found herself laughing. "Brooklynn, go back downstairs. I will be down in a minute."

"It had only better be a minute and why are your clothes lyin--- uh, Georgie I will come back later." said the singer with an embarrassed tone of voice. "I am so sorry."

"She should be." grumbled Johnny who had to laugh as he looked at himself and how he was barely dressed. "Who is that so I know who to kill?"

"Jason and AJ's cousin's daughter and one of my closest friends. You can't kill her, she is performing at the club tonight." she said laying back on the carpet. Looking over at Johnny she leaned over and kissed him quickly then said "We are going to have to wait, I am supposed to be at a meeting with Dr. Quartermaine in a half hour."

Pulling her close, he said "Tonight?" Then thinking on his plan to help AJ made a mental note to tell the blond they had to have the set up done by ten.

"Yes, but not here obviously." she said. "I have to find Brooklynn before she broadcasts what she interrupted all over the web."

Easing his zipper up and standing to pull her to her feet, he said "This kind of happened quickly anyhow. I don't even have any... condoms."

Watching him blush, she said "I have to admit I have been thinking about it, you are lucky you made it out the office last night with your virtue in tact."

Giving her a hard kiss, he said "Get dressed. And what have you done to your poor hair?"

Going to her mirror, she said "I didn't get to dry my hair straight this morning, it was wrapped in a towel while I read our letters, then I pulled it back like this to go find you."

Reaching up to gently tug the rubber band loose, he said "Wow." as the wild curly hair fell loose. "I like this version of your hair."

"It is untamable." she said reaching for a brush. Then looking at the clock, pulled it up in a clip. "I have to meet Dr. Q."

Twenty minutes later, a very calm and composed Georgie went to find Monica Quartermaine while Johnny had seen one of Jason's vehicles there and wondered what was up. Seeing Elizabeth, he sat down as she explained that she was waiting for her father to wake up after some minor surgery.

"How are you?" she asked then leaned to the side. "Well maybe I don't need an answer."

Seeing his blinking eyes, she said "Nicely forming hickey, there."

When his hand automatically went up to cover it, she laughed and said "I gather Georgie and you got things figured out."

"Yes. We still have some talking to do, and if it wasn't for a very untimely interruption, we might have already done so." he said. "She was the one. The letter writer."

"I know." Seeing his shock then anger, she reached for his arm and said "I figured it out because of what she told us about Jerry, but I knew that you two needed to do the same on your own. I told Jason if you hadn't by Valentines, I would tell you both."

"We did, today." he said. "I just worry, I mean I am still pretty screwed up. Claudia, my father. There is a lot going on that I have to deal with."

"Let her help you." she said. "Now if you will excuse me, I have company coming." When she stood, he watched as Jake and Cam rushed to see their mom then said hello to him.

By the time they turned around, Jason and his wife were kissing each other hello. "Hey, how is your dad doing?"

"Still asleep." she said. "Are you ready?"

"Just waiting on Monica." he said. Turning to Johnny he asked "Can you stay with the boys, for a few minutes, until my mother comes?"

Getting his assent, the expectant couple went to see Kelly Lee. "Are you two ready?"

Setting up the equipment, the doctor watched the two of them out of the corner of her eye, thinking this is what I want. When she had used the transducer, she said "There she is."

Looking at the picture, Jason felt the peace and happiness that being a new parent brought. "Kelly, why is she so active?"

"The cold most likely, Elizabeth do you want me to print a few of these."

Touching the scene while Kelly did so and after she had left to pick up the test results, Jason sat on the side of the gurney and asked "Do you have any idea what you want to name her?"

"I would love to use the name Emily, but I don't think she would like that." said Elizabeth. "So I was thinking something similar yet a name that is our daughter's."

"Miley?" he asked only for her to wrinkle her nose and say "Too teen pop princess."

"Amelia?" Elizabeth liked that one and said "Ameila what?"

"I know this might not go over well with the Q's but how about Amelia Susan?" he asked.

"For your biological mother?" she asked a bit surprised.

"Yes, I was talking to your grams about her. I know very little about her, but she was my mother." he said quietly. "Are you okay with that?"

"I love it." she said then hugging him as Kelly returned. "Okay, give us the news?"

"You are doing fine. Just keep doing what you are doing. And in six and half months you are going to have a little girl."

A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR and a HALF LATER

Jason hid his grin as Cody took over lighting the grill. "Why did we agree to do this?"

Holding their now crawling daughter, Elizabeth retorted "I think it went something like, we have lots of room."

"I know, but I am bit worried they are going to burn our house down." he said when the grill was finally lit. "Not how I wanted to celebrate Father's Day."

Setting their daughter into her playpen and what her brothers called baby jail to the annoyance of their great grandfather, Elizabeth asked "Will a kiss make it better?"

"A lot of kisses might be a good start." he said as he wrapped his hands around her waist and kissed her.

"Get a room." they heard. Turning to glare at the voice he said "So Drake, how did lighting the grill go."

"I am a surgeon, not a chef." he said then watched as his daughter chased after the Morgan boys. "I thought Maxie had her?"

"She is on the phone." said Elizabeth who touched Jason's arm to let him know she would be back as she went to find the blond. "Maxie?"

"He called, like you said." she hung up the phone then said "I just don't know what to do."

"I would tell you to follow you heart, but think seriously before you do. He is based in Italy, Maxie. He is almost fourteen years older than you and the two you have had a lot of things to deal with as a result of his time here."

"There there is the name thing." she said slightly humorously. "I mean, he has the same first name as my future brother in law."

Leaning in, Elizabeth said in an impish tone. "Want to know a secret, Johnny isn't his first name."

"What? He has yet another name?" she asked glaring at her phone.

"No, Johnny is a nickname for Sean." she said then told Maxie, "After working all the rest of it, follow your heart."

Robin had come inside to grab her sunglasses and said to Elizabeth. "Mac isn't going to be happy with that at all. He still has issues with Johnny O'Brien."

"I know, but they need to deal with him, not us. So how are you feeling?" she asked the woman who was four months pregnant.

"Better than I did with Emma." she said. "Speaking of being a parent, how is Steven doing?"

"I haven't heard from him in a couple of days but he was fine on Thursday." she said laughing along with the doctor. "Eight puppies, grams was ready to kill him when the mutt gave birth on top of her favorite bathrobe."

"You do know he is going to come looking for you to take one or two?" she asked then sobered up when she said "Us too."

Looking across the room to where Jax was talking to AJ, Robin said "How did Jason take the news about Carly?"

"He is fine. We all knew she would self implode eventually." said Elizabeth. "It's just too bad she took Bobbie with her. Bobbie was the only one who was trying to help her."

After dinner, Jax and the two kids left promising to call while in Hawaii for the summer. AJ was bringing Michael and Alexis was going to stop in with the girls for two weeks. Carly's escape attempt had hit Jax hard, he felt responsible for Bobbie's death if not his ex-wife's.

Lulu had tried to place blame on him as well, ending her romance with Matt who had been sure she had changed her ways. He had been in for quite the shock after catching her verbally haranguing Elizabeth who had been working her shift. When the blond had said she was sorry and didn't mean it, she had not gotten the reaction she had expected.

After the funeral and being careful not to leave any debts behind, Lulu had caught the plane to Paris where her mother resided with Scott Baldwin. More than one person was wondering how that was going to turn out.

Meanwhile Sam had been working hard over the last year and half, slowly learning to move her arms, to walk again. When she had reached the end of the bars without having to hold them, she grinned at her instructor.

"I did it." she said happily. Thinking on the plans she had made, on her dreams of getting revenge on the fake Jason and that bitch Elizabeth Webber, she bided her time, planning on accessing the staff computer later that night after paying off the orderly with the only thing she had left to trade in.

"Yes, you did." he replied hiding his own feelings regarding it.

At midnight Father's Day, Sam waited for the man to get off of her then purred "Thank you, I need that."

"You are welcome, are you sure about wanting to look at those websites?" he asked. "Then I need one more thing from you."

Typing on the laptop, Sam pulled up the files on Port Charles and leaned the Carly had died and thought good, that was one less problem standing in her way. Then she read the birth announcement for Amelia Susan and said "Well that name is going to have to go."

Finally pay dirt in the gossip columns. Jason and Elizabeth's relationship was rocky, something about landscaping. Then she read that the nurse was still working and made plans to take her out there. Heading back to her room, knowing that by now, Jason had to be regretting the mistake he had made, Sam was certain in another week she would be out of there.

The next day after a tough session, she was soaking in the whirlpool, glaring at the institutional suit they required her to wear when she head "Sam?"

"Jason?" she asked with a smile as she looked up. Pushing out her chest, she said "I knew it, I knew you would come and take me home. I am so going to rock your world."

Climbing out of the tub as seductively as she could in a one piece suit, Sam held out her hand and Jason took it into his tight grasp.

Jason gave her a smile that didn't reach his eyes then turned to the man standing next to him and said "Yes, it is her. She didn't escape."

The man next to Jason took her hand away from Jason's and slapped the cuffs on her. "Samantha McCall, I am with the US Marshall Service. I am here to take you to Alden women's correctional facility now that it has been determined you are healthy enough to serve the jail time the courts ordered for you."

"Jason?" she whined. "What is this?"

"You finally getting what you deserve." he said walking away. "Sam, I wouldn't try the moment of weakness excuse on them, they are not going to want to hear it."

Sam felt the second cuff grip her behind her wrist and then looked around. Seeing her rehab instructor, she said "Help me."

When he thanked Jason for showing up so promptly, Sam screamed JASON, JASON, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?

"You endangered my family, what did you think you were going to get to walk away for what you did to Elizabeth, to our boys?"

"I know you married that bitch, I know she isn't keeping you satisfied. I know, Jason, I know all. The Port Charles Herald has all about how your marriage is falling apart, how it is on the rocks."

Jason kept walking for once glad that the PC Herald had nothing better to do then run articles about his wife and his argument regarding the rocks he was placing down by the water. "Sam, we are happy, we have three children and want more. I have what I want and it isn't you."

She was still screaming when the female officer forced her to change into the orange jumpsuit and then locked her in the back of the transport van with an officer she couldn't see.

"Hello, Samantha." she heard.

"Luke?" she said softly. "Luke Spencer, thank god. Are you here to get me out of going to prison."

"In a manner of speaking." he said then covering her mouth, shoved the shank into her. When she had fallen to the floor, he said "That is for killing Lucky."

She gurgled and pulled him closer. "N-nik did it."

"The Prince of Darkness is already dead." he told her coldly. Nik's weakness had been his desperation to regain the money he had lost and Luke had taken advantage of a woman he had saved a few years before. The dark haired beauty had killed the man then taken Spencer as her own child fulfilling her need for an heir. Luke didn't know which of the two had killed his boy, but they had paid and paid dearly.

Waiting for the Marshall to let Sam out for a potty break, Luke sat there, listening as she drew her last breath. Taking the pill in his teeth, Luke fell flat on the floor, thinking to himself that he had been betrayed. The drugs that were to fake his death had been real.

Back in Port Charles, at the end of the month, a wedding celebration was to take place. Mac had gotten word from Commissioner Abbott about Sam and Luke the night before. Watching as Cam and Jake Morgan and Morgan Jacks mimicked Johnny who was pacing back and forth, he said "I will go see what the problem is."

Heading up the aisle, he saw the various citizens of Port Charles, including the Quartermaines who were looking in worry at the back of the church. When Elizabeth slid in, he asked "What is going on?"

"The dress problem, she is overreacting to it." she said then went back to the vestibule where Robin was trying valiantly to do something about the problem while Georgie kept pacing back and forth. Maxie and Brooklynn were just trying not to laugh at the picture she was creating when they saw Elizabeth grab Georgie by the shoulders and say "Enough is enough. Take a deep breath, now.... okay another one. This is not a catastrophe."

"This isn't my dress, they sent the wrong dress. I am about to be married in something Princess Di would wear to her own wedding and this isn't a disaster??" she said as she went to pace but found her path blocked by Elizabeth and the train.

"Is Johnny waiting at the end of that aisle?" Seeing her nod yes, Elizabeth continued. "Are armed gunmen about to storm the church?"

"I really, really hope not." she said with a small chuckle.

"Do you have a diseases that is going to infect everyone?"

No, she nodded. "Okay, then one last thing, look out that window, the sun is shining, it is a warm beautiful day, so you are dressed like a Madam Alexander doll, you look beautiful." she said to the younger girl. "And the only other person whose opinion counts is at the other end of that flower filled aisle."

"Where is Mac?" she asked as she pulled down the veil and took her flowers from Maxie who said "Thank god, can we get this started. I thought I was the drama queen in this family."

Felicia turned to Frisco as their little girl walked down the aisle to the man she adored and said "Mac did good."

His stiff nod had her realizing he still felt guilty about not being a better parent. Reaching for his hand as Robin reached the end, followed by Elizabeth and Brooklynn. A few chuckles were heard when Maxie turned quickly and glared at Lucas who was playing the organ for the faster speed than was necessary.

As the Bridal March started, Georgie got control of her butterflies and smiled at Johnny. Seeing her two flower "guys" tossing the petals, she gave a quick grin then laughed when Cam winked at her. Cheeky little kid that he was.

Mac handed Georgie off to Johnny and stepped back. Looking around, he was grateful for all that had gotten them here. Seeing AJ and Jason sitting with Amelia, he couldn't help reflecting that if he hadn't gone looking for what four smoots were, his life would have been much more lonely.

At the wedding reception, Elizabeth followed Jason out to the rose garden and asked "What is it?"

"I love you," he said pulling her into his arms and saying. "Can you hear that?"

"The music, of course." she said.

"Wait for it." he said then as the a familiar song started to play, he reached out and said "May I have this dance Mrs. Morgan?"

As they danced, Alan who had come looking for the missing twosome swore he could see the echoes of his daughter and mother watching over the two as they danced unaware of anyone but each other.

The end