Ok, so I know some of you are creeped out by the stalker. The stalker is really just the springboard for this story. Yes you will all find out who it is eventually though.
I know there are a lot of questions about the history, Sam, Claudia, who Sean is... and all that but just bear with us and you will all learn it and hopefully enjoy it all. There is a lot to tell, a few flashbacks are even coming... soon!

Chapter 3

Was she overreacting? No! It wasn't Sam that worried Elizabeth, it was Claudia. Claudia had the reputation of being as crazy as her father. With Sonny being out of town, that left her in charge. Before they married it would have been Jason running things in Sonny's absence but things had changed the last time Jason tried to leave the business for her after Jake was born. Sonny had married Claudia and he haphazardly agreed that she would be his partner in the business.

Her argument with Jason in public hadn't helped either. It wasn't common that they'd even address each other in public beyond a cordial 'hello' but this day she'd had enough. After running into Jason with Carly and the boys at Kelly's the day before Cameron's birthday party, that Jason could not attend, Elizabeth had lost it. Sure nobody knew that Cameron was Jason's son but he still could have attended as a friend of the family or even tagged along with Emily somehow. In 5 years he had only been to Cameron's birthday twice, once the day he was born and also his third birthday but that was only because they were in Switzerland. Of course nobody knew they were together and Jason had told Sonny he was leaving town for a week or so to clear his head. Regardless, seeing him, again, with Carly and the boys set her off. She waited until Carly left and followed Jason to the docks.

It was bad, she had hit him with her purse and called him every name in the book. The docks weren't crowded but there were a few people that witnessed the argument although they did not know what it was about. She told him it was time to make a decision, all or nothing then she stomped off leaving him to make his choice. He had to chose to be in his boy's lives or stay away… for good.

That was almost a week ago and she hadn't heard from him since. It was wrong to give him an ultimatum but something had to change. Sure he was with Sam now but they weren't serious, it was obvious that he was just with her again because she was there and was constantly throwing herself at him. It didn't matter to her much though, if Jason wanted to be with Sam she could live with that if it meant he would be in the boy's lives.

She pulled her SUV up to her Grams' house. She had stopped home for ten minutes to grab some clothes and toys for the boys. Now she just had to explain things to her grandmother and get to the safe house before Claudia sent her goons after her.

It was an accident, Jason would certainly know it and she was pretty sure Sam knew it as well but Claudia wouldn't know and she was always looking for a new target to set her sights on. She was sure Sam would stretch the truth on what happened in that alley. Sam always seemed jealous of her and Jason even though they had never had a public relationship. Jason even told her that Sam had asked him if Jake was his but he lied and assured Sam that there was nothing between them. Jason always feared that if word got out about her or the boys being special to him that someone would use them as leverage.

"Oh my goodness Elizabeth, what happened to your forehead?" Audrey immediately asked.

Elizabeth had forgotten to clean her face off before leaving her house and hadn't walked in front of a mirror until she looked in the mirror in her grandmothers foyer. She'd fallen good, there was a bruise on the right side of her forehead and an open cut that would account for the dried blood down the side of her temple. "Oh my g…" Elizabeth mumbled and fiercely began wiping at her skin with the cuff of her sweatshirt she had found in the back of her SUV. She used her tongue to wet the cuff and managed to clean it up so she at least did not look like she belonged in a bad slasher movie.

"Liz, what happened?" Audrey asked, the worry clear in her voice.

"Where are the boys?" Elizabeth asked, avoiding her question.

"In the den playing."

Her voice was shaky when she spoke again, "Grams I have to get out of here. We have to go away for a while."

"Ok, Elizabeth, you are scaring me."

"I don't have time to explain everything but Jason is in the hospital, he's been shot."

Audrey's hands went to cover her mouth, "Oh my!"

"I did it." Elizabeth whispered, her voice cracking with emotion. "It was an accident and it was probably wrong of me to run but I had to, I can't take a chance with the boys."

Audrey's hands stayed attached to her mouth and Elizabeth could see the questions forming so she cut them off before they began.

"Grams, you know I'd never hurt him, he is the father of my children. I love him… I-I always will. It was a very big mistake but I will explain it all later because Jason is unconscious and the people he is associated with are not going to listen to me."

"Is he going to be ok?"

Elizabeth nodded unsurely, "It looked like it grazed him but I left before the paramedics got there. I couldn't take the chance of Claudia Corinthos' goons showing up."

Audrey nodded, understanding. Regardless of the decisions her granddaughter had made over the years she had always supported her. For over 14 years Elizabeth had a tumultuous relationship with mob hit man Jason Morgan and Audrey was one of the few people they had confided in with their relationship and the true paternity of her boys. Audrey never judged, she only expressed her desire for Elizabeth to be happy, and at times she was… but it was always short lived. "Where are we going?"

Elizabeth's heart skipped a beat, "We?"

Audrey nodded matter-of-factly, "I'm not letting you do this alone. I'll go get the boys, you finish getting cleaned up." Audrey said, immediately jumping into her protective motherly mode. She was the only mother Elizabeth really knew and she would not have it any other way.

Elizabeth nodded as the tears welled up in her eyes once again, "We're going to my and Jason's house, the safe house."


"Tell me again what happened." Claudia said with her arms crossed over her chest as she clucked her tongue.

"Elizabeth Webber shot him in the alley behind Alexandros where we went for dinner."

Claudia's eye narrowed, "You, Jason and Elizabeth were going out to dinner?"

"Ew, no!" Sam quickly retorted. "We heard her and he went to see what was going on. We got there and before he could say a word he got hit."

"Then what happened? She ran?"

Sam nodded, leaving out the part where she approached them scared to death that she had just shot Jason. "You're going to make her pay for this right?" Sam asked.

Claudia looked at the woman in front of her. She certainly did not like her but she definitely liked her spunk. "You think I should retaliate?"

"I wouldn't go after her family or kids or anything but are you going to just let her shoot your enforcer?" Sam snapped, her voice raising a bit too much.

Claudia shushed her and quickly looked around the waiting room, "Can you shut it? We are in public and I am not going to talk about putting a hit out on someone in a hospital waiting room."

Sam shook her head, "I just wanted to make sure she pays for what she did tonight."

With a nod, Claudia said, "Oh, she will pay. You can count on that."

"Sam?"

Sam cringed at the voice. Ever since their night together she despised him even more then she did before. He was her mother's husband, well ex-husband now and every time he looked at her she knew he was imagining her naked on the floor with him. "Ric." She coldly said with a nod.

"You were there?"

Sam nodded.

"I'm going to need to take a statement." Ric snidely said.

"Why you, you hate Jason and are probably happy he was shot. Aren't the police supposed to take my statement?"

Ric shrugged, "Well, I happened to be at my office when the call came in so I offered to take the statements. Would you like to do it here or we can go downtown." He snapped.

"I'm not leaving until I know Jason is alright."

"Fine then, can you tell me exactly what happened?"

Sam rolled her eyes and went into a full account of her night. She even told Ric what she and Jason had for dinner and that they were planning on going home to end the night perfectly which gained an eye roll from Ric. "Then Jason heard a scream so we rushed to the alley and before we even saw who was there he was shot."

"How far away was the shooter?"

Sam shook her head, "I don't know… maybe twenty five feet, it was dark."

"Did you get a good look at who it was? Male? Female? Tall? Short? Anything?" Ric asked.

Sam looked behind Ric where Claudia was standing, shaking her head.

"No, I have no idea who it was, they were in the shadows and immediately ran away, I never got a look at them."

Ric's eyes narrowed, "You didn't see anything?" He knew she was withholding information.

"Just Jason's blood, that was all I saw." Sam plainly said.


Edited 1 time by RTNAdmin1 05/15/10 11:53 AM.