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The Triumph Of AJ Quartermaine
A Q Continuum- Jason freaks
Quartermaine mansion in the family room Edward, Ned, and Monica are having a pre dinner drink and bickering over their day. Monica looks at her watch and sighs deciding to not wait on Alan, Emily or AJ. Cook was ticked enough as it was. The staff at the PC grille was getting tired of sending over dinners because cook had feed the family's to Annabelle and Raoul. Without Emily there to smooth the waters, and Lila dining in her room there was no one to mitigate the cook's wrath. Rising from her place on the couch, Monica goes to call Reggie when Jason bursts through the patio doors.
"Reginald!!! Call the police." Edward bellows. "The hoodlum is back and trespassing."
Monica turns around closing the door and leaning up against it. "This is my house! I'll decide who is trespassing and Jason is always welcome here!" Then Monica sees that Leticia, Johnny and Sonny are with Jason. Her welcoming smile fades at the look of rage on Jason's face. "Jason...?"
"Where are they? Where are Michael and Carly?"
"Oh ho! so you have lost your son and the little slut again? Why doesn't that surprise me?" Edward taunts. Then he pauses as Jason's words sink in then he roars. "What have you done with my great grandson, you... you ruffian?!"
Sonny looks down at his fingertips before glancing at Edward out of the corner of his eye. "Well I guess we'd have to ask Junior that one. Where's AJ?" Sonny looks around the room then nods in Johnny's direction. Johnny crosses the room and brushing Monica out of the way enters the foyer glancing around he heads up stairs and starts opening and slamming doors. Nobody moves in the room except to sputter and then fall silent. Jason stone faces them all waiting for Johnny's return.
"Sorry, Boss. I found the nursery but there's no one there. No evidence they've been there. Found AJ's rooms but they are empty too."
"If you had asked I could have told you that ." Monica snarls at the hapless but cute Johnny. "Jason, I want some answers! Why have you barged in like this? Where is Michael? What has Carly done with him?"
"Carly didn't have anything to do with it!" Jason clips off his words. "AJ snatched Michael from his doctor's appointment. He had to have had help-- Monica."
Monica shakes her head. "No, Jason there is no way that I would do that to you."
"Then perhaps Alan?..." Sonny queries from the chair where he has made himself comfortable. "Someone with access to the patient schedules."
"Alan hasn't worked at the hospital in months!" Monica denies.
Ned crosses to the desk and starts dialing. Sonny asks, "What are you doing, Ashton?"
"Calling the airfield seeing if the jet has been taken. If Junior has Michael..." Ned gets through and finds out that AJ had taken the jet and that it had already landed in New York City and was on it's way back. He relays the information to Jason.
"What do you think you're doing, Ned-- telling him that. AJ must have had a plan." Then Edward mutters to himself. "Although I have no idea why the young fool didn't let me in on it!"
Just then Taggert and Mac come through the doors pushing Monica out of the way. Reginald follows them. "Someone called for the police?"
"Ah Angerboy... you misplace something?" Taggert quips. "Kinda bigger than that Glock I took off of your lackey boy today. Or now that Ricco Suave is back perhaps you don't get to have all the lackey boys anymore? Do you guys take turns? Who gets to be on top this week?" Jason make a move toward Taggert but is blocked by Sonny who holds him back. "Did I strike a nerve?" Taggert taunts. "Bring it on, Quarterbrain. I'd love to haul your butt in for something that would keep you longer than a simple trespass."
"What are you waiting for-- Arrest them. We might still have time to have the house fumigated tonight." Edward orders the police with a wave of the hand.
"Jason is not trespassing. It's my house and I say who is welcome here. You keep this up, Edward and you can have your bags forwarded to the Port Charles Hotel!" Monica interjects sharply, disappointing Taggert who steps back with a sigh. "Mac, perhaps you could tell us what in the Hell is going on and where my grandson is!"
"All I know is that AJ had a court order for temporary custody of Michael. I thought that he would have headed back here. Taggert and I were there when... custody changed hands."
"You mean when AJ took the baby from Carly! Without her consent!" Jason fumes.
"Hey she followed him soon enough, Angerboy. Didn't see her running to you, did ya? Guess that little piece has an idea of which side her bread is buttered on. And that is with the baby's father."
In a cacophony of voices, Edward, Monica and Ned exclaim. "What?! The baby's father? AJ!" Jason winces at the din.
Mac turns to Jason. "You didn't tell them?"
"There's nothing to tell; Michael is my son." Jason grinds out.
Sonny steps next to Jason and whispers quietly to him. "The airport." Jason nods and with a motion to Leticia and Johnny exits from the patio doors.
"Follow them." Mac orders to Taggert.
"Already on it, Commish." Taggert follows Jason and Sonny out the patio doors. Mac turns to leave from the front door.
"Wait just a minute, Mac. You can't drop a bomb like that and then just walk out! AJ is Michael's father? What proof is there? How long have you known? Why didn't you tell us?" Monica blocks Mac from leaving.
"Yes, Mac. How long have you known? I can't imagine that Robin wouldn't have known about all this since she and Jason were attached at the hip. Jason says that Michael is his son and he wouldn't lie." Ned glares at Mac.
"I found out today, just like everyone else. But AJ has evidently known for months. been planning this for months; he was just waiting on the proof. Once he got it, he petitioned the court for custody and a hearing is set for ten days from now."
"And Robin?" Monica asks.
Mac winces. "Robin knew all along. She knew from the time that she first came back from Paris. She said that she thought that it wasn't her secret to tell. And she didn't. She didn't even tell me. She only told AJ the day before she left to go back to Paris."
Ned shakes his head in denial. "Jason says that Michael is his. He wouldn't lie."
Edward starts rubbing his hands together in glee. "Soon my great grandson will take his rightful place in the family and the business!"
"Oh put a sock in it, Edward! You see that AJ isn't here and we have no idea where he is! He didn't tell any of us what he was doing and he took Carly with him. What am I going to tell Emily?" Monica groans in dismay.