Rewrite of the baby switch on GH
First, Julian knows nothing about the switch.
Brad agrees to switch the babies, and is a total nervous wreck about the whole thing. He’s twitchy and nervous around the birth mom, Willow (Julian tells Brad who she is when they meet), and starts looking for calm in DoD (same as the show)
Lucas becomes more and more frustrated with Brad, starting to worry that maybe he really isn’t into having a child and just goes along to please his husband. He starts hanging around Michael with Wiley a bit more all the time, leaning into the godfather thing and trying to make sense of things. Michael doesn’t like Brad anyway (he tried to blackmail him into sex, eww) and while he doesn’t try to cause problems, he doesn’t defend him either.
Lucas also starts thawing a bit toward Julian, seeing him more often as he hands out at Charlie’s more, and he sees him with Leo quite a bit, and being a good dad.
Willow hates that Brad is hanging around DoD and Shiloh and freaks out, telling her boyfriend Chase about Wiley’s conception and her concerns about Brad putting Shiloh into Wiley’s orbit. He comforts her and tells her that the only way she can really do anything about it is if she tells Lucas who she is, and tells him the whole story around the adoption. Willow agrees and asks Julian to introduce her to his son, to make it less awkward. Willow tells the whole story, including how she was unsure about being able to hand Wiley over until Julian told her about how wonderful his son was and promised to stay completely out of things if it make her trust them more. She also says that she thinks she was wrong to insist on that, now knowing him.
Willow’s mom shows up, knowing that she was pregnant when she ran away and tries to blackmail, guilt and goad her into giving up info about her child. Harmony doesn't believe her when she says the baby is gone and threatens to tell Shiloh. Willow is concerned about this and discusses it at the Nurses’ Ball where Nina overhears and yells at her about being a terrible person for giving her baby away (Nina already hates her for the bullying stuff). Shiloh overhears and guesses that she had his baby and grabs her and threatens her and says that he will take the child, no matter what.
Willow freaks out, but for the first time in ages, Brad is super calm. He tells her that it doesn’t matter what Shiloh says, they will make sure that he can’t claim Wiley. He tells her that she should stall for a while, and then demand a paternity test before being compelled to give any information legally about her child. He promises her that any test run will say that the baby isn’t Shiloh’s. She’s confused, but agrees Diane, her lawyer, tells her that it shouldn’t come to that kind of falsification, that she can handle it, but Willow is calm because she trusts that Brad will handle things. Chase worries, but Willow assures him that she’s not going to do anything sneaky at all, just demand that all of the correct legal steps be taken, and she’s confident that Shiloh will have no leg to stand on.
Shiloh is smug through winning all of his legal points, even as he continues to threaten Willow at all turns, and figures out that Wiley is her child. He even tries to talk Brad around to his side, thinking that the other man will be an easy mark for DoD and will hand Wiley over with enough pressure. However, when the test results that the court orders come back they say that Shiloh can’t be Wiley’s father and Shiloh losses his shit, saying that Willow has betrayed him and threatening her, saying that she is his property and she will pay.
When Shiloh goes to jail Willow is relieved, but then he escapes and kidnaps her. He tells her that she shouldn’t have given her body to someone else, that she belonged to him. He says he could have forgiven her for the cop (Chase), but the idea that she screwed someone else while living as a part of DoD is unacceptable, and that she will have to serve penance for it. He tells her that she will have his child, one way or another.
Willow tries to brave it out, but when he gets her to a cabin in the woods and tells her how he plans to rape her until she’s pregnant and then they will be a family she cracks and admits that the DNA test was rigged. Shiloh just sneers at her and tells her he’s not stupid, that she can’t stall using that claim. He’d thought of that, since Brad is the lab manager, and obtained his own samples and ran them at a different lab in New Jersey. He yells at her again, demanding to know who she’d slept with when she was his.
Willow is very confused and can’t answer, because there was nobody and then there are sirens and Shiloh escapes before they can get him. Chase comforts Willow, but she can’t get that angry confrontation out of her mind.
After being checked out by an EMT, Willow goes to the station to give a statement, still mentally chewing on Shiloh’s words. When she gets there all of her friends are there to support her, including Brad and Lucas with Wiley. She stares at the child that is supposed to be her son and confronts Brad right there in the squad room. She asks why the independent blood test says that Shiloh isn’t Wiley’s father. Why was Brad so confident that it would go their way in the first place? Did he rig the test? How could the results of Shiloh’s test be the same if Brad rigged the court ordered one?
Brad flails like a guppy on the beach and then, when Willow turns to Lucas and asks if they can do another test with her and Wiley and Shiloh’s previous sample, Brad cracks and tells the truth. Willow is completely devastated and Lucas and Michael are shocked and horrified. Lucas flees the building with Wiley and Michael, after a few moments collecting himself, has Brad arrested for “Kidnapping, custodial interference, fraud, whatever you want to call it.”
The next day Chase meets up with Michael at Charlie’s and they talk about what happened and what will happen next. Chase says that Willow is grieving and despondent, and Michael says that Lucas has holed up in his house with Wiley and isn’t answering the door or phone for anyone. As for the future, Michael doesn’t know what will happen, or what should happen. There is a process to go through either way. There are a lot of legal processes involved in making things right and giving both his son and Willow’s their proper names and places. Chase asks what Michael believes is Wiley’s proper place and Michael admits that he doesn’t know.
Nelle finds out in prison that she is being charged with child abandonment, fraud, custodial interference and misuse of a corpse and freaks out. Once she finds out that Shiloh has been killed by Sam she starts to plot what she’s going to do to get out of prison and get her son back.
Michael jumps though all the hoops to get Wiley recognized as his son while Lucas slowly works toward accepting the truth. Lucas talks with Julian and with Michael and with Chase and with Brad in jail. Time passes as Michael spends time with Wiley, but leaves him in Lucas’ care until they can get things worked out. Lucas talks Brad into a quick divorce so that Brad’s actions don’t interfere with Lucas’ relationship with Wiley. Willow goes to counseling and she and Lucas have their actual child reburied under a name that they choose for him, since Wiley is Wiley to them forever. Chase and Willow discuss her feelings and she gets comfort from Elizabeth and from Sam.
Michael’s parents pressure him to take Wiley from Lucas right away, saying that stalling only makes it harder and he tells his mother “You used to tell me the story sometimes about how, when AJ got custody when I was Wiley’s age, that I would cry and cry because even though AJ was my biological father, Jason was who I belonged with. You told me it broke your heart. How can you expect me to do that to Wiley?” Carly says it’s not the same at all, and even if it is, he’s not the kind of man AJ was. Sonny says that he needs to claim what is his, no matter what.
Michael ignores them and comes to a compromise with Lucas. They will share custody of Wiley and change his name to Wiley Jonah Quartermaine-Jones. They agree to be roommates until custody can be made official and legal so Michael moves into Lucas’ guest room. His girlfriend, Sasha, breaks up with him because their lives are going in different directions and she’s not really involved in any of the custody stuff, she feels like a spectator and they need to concentrate on other things in their lives. Michael understands and they stay friends.
I listened to a little bit of Nathan's preaching and it wasn't horrible. What I heard was him speaking about looking to God instead of following the example of friends. Not to lose your way by trying to be like other people that we look up to who pull away from God and Christian values. Nothing earth shattering. He's a better speaker than I expected.
