Sam McCall-Quartermaine paced the lobby, covering her familiar tracks as she awaited news from the latest round of tests involving her little boy Danny.

At the same time, she was waiting to hear news on whether the man whose DNA matched with his would be able to give him the life-saving transplant. She and her mother, Alexis had been elated at the news that their donor drive had resulted in a match from a most unlikely source. Sam had been bitterly disappointed when newspaper publisher had bumped the story of the bone marrow drive off the front page of his newspaper.

Seriously what kind of story could trump that of saving a little boy? Some guy named Derek Wells had breezed into town and taken over the newspaper, a man who didn't know a damn thing about PC or the people who lived here.

The story that was chosen to replace it? An expose on whether or not Kiki was even a Quartermaine or not…who frigging cared. As her mother put it, what does that even mean?

The Qs were the closest thing that PC had to royalty and thus everything that they did was treated as the hottest of news. Perhaps it could have been the Cassadines who actually at one time wore crowns and tiaras but they were viewed as being too certifiably insane to kick the Qs out off the throne. Perhaps from too much inbreeding as was common in royal families.

Sam didn't care about all that right now. Yes, she'd been married to a Quartermaine just like she'd been Miklos Cassadine's granddaughter. Her baby's maternal lineage had given him the same leukemia that had struck his aunt Kristina when she'd been a baby and Sam had hoped that the bloodlines on Danny's father's side could help cure him.

Alas, not to happen that way as the only viable Q had been determined to be unsuitable for donating his marrow so she and Alexis had decided to hold a drive for donors outside their family tree at the hospital.

Derek being tested had pretty much been a fluke. He'd only come down to get tested because he felt guilty for bumping Danny's story off the front page or he thought he might get heat for it from his readers.

Sam figured he'd give his sample and it'd be filed away with all the others as being a mismatch. Never in a million years did she expect to hear that he of all people out there would be the one person who could save her little boy.

Yeah he was a match, a 1 in 50,000 shot since he wasn't a blood relative of hers or Danny's but Silas had explained to her that he still had to be green lighted as a donor through a litany of tests. So she paced the hallways alone.

Her mother Alexis had been wrapped up in the whole tragic murder of Connie Falconeri and Olivia who'd gone hysterical on everyone. Alexis had gone into full lawyer mode trying to settle Olivia down after she'd turned into a blubbering mess after seeing of all things blood pooling inside one of the hospital elevators.

How'd she tied that enigmatic vision into Connie being in danger was anyone's guess but well…what was life in Port Charles without a murder mystery?

Well someone else would have to solve it because Sam's attention was focused entirely on her son. She was his only surviving parent and he needed her right now. Her partner Damian Spinelli was wrapped up in his own baby drama right now. He hadn't told her much about his fascination with Lulu and Dante's newborn but he didn't have to, she could read him like a manual.

Anyway it didn't matter because it looked like the troublemaking A.J. Quartamaine had been nailed by PCPD for murdering Connie in cold blood. He had been handcuffed by Dante of course and carted off to jail where it looked like Anna Devine would break him down into a confession. As soon as she finished dealing with her own family crises.

Sam had glimpsed a flash of A.J. unshaven and dazed on the news as he was being taken to jail. Sonny of course being Sonny had shown up to brandish a gun while threatening to shoot A.J. Even though he committed multiple felonies, he was not arrested by his son Dante.

Sam had missed all that drama remaining at the hospital where her son Danny had been staying for the past month, gravely ill. Only now instead of a blood relative showing up from any corner of the earth or even as a skeleton emerging from some family closet, he'd turned out to be a more ordinary man.

She'd underestimated Derek who didn't turn out to be a bad guy after all. In fact, he seemed to like Danny and had asked to hold him. Her mother seemed to get along with him as well.

He'd been at the hospital finishing the final round of tests which Silas said would take a day or two to come back.

If it all looked good, then Derek would be green lighted for the transplant and as far as Sam was concerned it couldn't happen soon enough.

Kiki wandered the hallways of the hospital passing out fliers for what Alexis thought might be a missing dog but as she picked one up, she saw that apparently Franco who'd been laid up in the hospital on some trumped up medical condition or another had gone missing.

The only place this sociopath belonged was in a jail cell. Alexis glanced at Kiki, the girl whose family lineage had bounced Danny's story off the front page of the newspaper and just shook her head. The girl who was dressed like a troll up obviously was lacking for some parental guidance. But then if she was hanging around with the likes of Franco, that explained an awful lot.

She bumped into Felicia who had been there to visit Maxie who apparently was suffering from postpartum depression. Alexis hadn't caught the whole story with her giving birth to Dante and Lulu's baby via surrogacy except what Mac had told her over coffee. Felicia looked worn and Alexis knew it must be so tough on her. She'd lost her youngest to a serial killer and nearly lost her firstborn to complications with the birth.

"Oh Hi Alexis…"

"Hi Felicia…how's Maxie doing?"

Felicia smiled.

"Much better…thanks for asking. Not many people have done that…they all seemed focused on the baby…not that it's wrong or anything but what about my Maxie?"

Alexis sighed.

"I'm sure it must be hard on her…going through such a harrowing experience but she'll come through it just fine."

Felicia just looked so worried but Alexis could tell she looked much happier since her wedding to Mac. Alexis had been really happy for him even though she and Mac had shared a lot of coffee dates in the past. It was just never going to work for them but they'd always be close friends.

"Mac told me some guy tried to hit on you the other night at the Floating Rib."

Alexis waved her hand.

"Oh that…it was that newspaper publisher Derek Wells and he just wanted to explain why he moved the bone marrow story off the front page."

Felicia shrugged.

"I never understood why they bumped it just to print a story on someone not being a Q heir. So what? They just saved that person's life in case Tracy was planning to bump her off."

Alexis knew some of Tracy's history but not all of it.

"But I hope you find a match for Danny…"

"Oh we did Felicia…and of all people guessed who it turned out to be?"

Felicia ventured a guess.

"Tracy Quartermaine?"

Alexis shook her head.

"No…it's not a Q at all. It's Derek Wells…"

Felicia's eyes widened.

"What were the odds of that?"

"Something like 1 in 50,000. Molly just pointed that out…"

Felicia frowned.

"That's a coincidence to end all of them don't you think?"

Alexis had wondered about that too, in fact she was wondering about quite a few things…including about this Derek Wells.

Molly sipped her cola in the hospital cafeteria. Since her family spent most of its time at the hospital, she'd suggested that they head to the cafeteria but she and Rafe had gone alone.

That's when they heard the guy…who'd said he was Derek Wells on the phone saying something crazy like not telling people who he really was...which sounded awfully mysterious to her.

Of course being direct about such things, she'd approached him and asked about it. He'd come up with the pat answer that adults give teenagers who they think aren't smart enough to figure out something's up with that.

She just smiled and went along with it. He seemed unduly interested in her once she mentioned being Sam's sister, her half-sister. Well, if he was hiding a secret, he'd never get it passed her.

"He seems like a nice guy," Rafe said, "and if he can save Danny's life…"

Molly sighed.

"I know but what he said…and how he tried to fool us like we're teenagers."

"We are teenagers."

"Yeah whatever…I don't know if I believe he's who he says he is…"